title: What is the ideal number of partitions in kafka topic?
body: <p>I am learning Kafka and trying to create a topic for my recent search application. The data being pushed to kafka topics is assumed be a high number. </p>
  
  <p>My kafka cluster have 3 brokers and there are already topics created for other requirements.</p>
  
  <p>Now what should be the number of partitions which i should choose for my recent search topic? And what if i do not provide the partition number explicitly? What are things needs to be considered when choosing the partition number?</p>