Can a Kafka producer create topics and partitions?

Question

currently I am evaluating different Messaging Systems. There is a question related to Apache Kafka which I could not answer myself.

Is it possible for a Kafka producer t

Answer 1

When you are starting your kafka broker you can define a bunch of properties in conf/server.properties file. One of the property is auto.create.topics.enable if you set this to true (by default) kafka will automatically create a topic when you send a message to a non existing topic. The partition number will be defined by the default settings in this same file.

Disadvantages : as far as I know, topics created this way will always have the same default settings (partitions, replicas ...).