Partition and Replication Factor.
How to create Topics with Partitions & Replication factor using Kafka?
Kafka maintains feeds of messages in categories called topics.
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Producers write data to topics and consumers read from topics.
Since Kafka is a distributed system, topics are partitioned and replicated across multiple nodes. Kafka treats each topic partition as a log (an ordered set of messages). Each message in a partition is assigned a unique offset.
Each topic has a user-defined category (or feed name), to which messages are published.
Create a Topic
To create a Kafka topic, run kafka-topics.bat (windows) or kafka-topics.sh (Mac or Linux) and specify the topic name, replication factor, and other attributes:
The following example creates a topic named “test-topic”, with 4 partitions and 1 replica:
.\bin\windows\kafka-topics.bat --create --topic test-topic -zookeeper localhost:2181 --replication-factor 1 --partitions 4
View or List all the Topics
To view the topic, run the list topic command:
.\bin\windows\kafka-topics.bat --list --zookeeper localhost:2181-> you can see Topic is listed with the name “test-topic”
The auto.create.topics.enable property, when set to true, automatically creates topics when applications attempt to produce, consume, or fetch metadata for a nonexistent topic.
