Jazz, the number of partitions isn't necessarily related to message volume. The biggest factors for max message volume would be the number of brokers and their write speed. You should choose the number of partitions based on the number of brokers and the number of consumers you expect to have.
Ryanne On Sun, Jan 27, 2019, 8:55 AM jaaz jozz <jazzlo...@gmail.com wrote: > Hello, > In order to be prepared for large volume of messages i want to configure my > topic with large amount of partitions (>1000). > What are the drawbacks of this? > Should I except any pitfalls? > > Best regards, > jazz >