If you enable auto topic creation that that is exactly what will happen. There are pros and cons to creating topics with defaults values but if you fell strongly that is the way that you want Kafka to work it is entire possible to setup the system to work that way.
-hans > On May 11, 2017, at 4:07 PM, Jeff Widman <j...@netskope.com> wrote: > > When creating a new topic, why do I need to specify the replication factor > and number of partitions? > > I'd rather than when omitted, Kafka defaults to the value set in > server.properties. > > Was this an explicit design decision?
