Kafka Topic Partitions in Practice

Learn how to find the number of partitions in a topic, determine the number of partitions for new topics, and change the number of partitions of an existing topic.

Checking the number of partitions in a topic

How can we find out the number of partitions in a topic? Connect to the terminal below (the Kafka server will start running automatically). Then, create a topic like we did in previous lessons by running the following:

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