---
title: "Best practices"
slug: "dev-event-broker-best-practices-index"
updated: 2026-10-28T02:15:03Z
published: 2026-10-28T02:15:03Z
canonical: "docs.vastdata.com/dev-event-broker-best-practices-index"
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.vastdata.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Best practices

This section will recommend designs and starting values for topics, producers and consumers: what to choose for a given workload, and how to size for it. Recommendations are a starting point, based on benchmarks and deployments. Always measure with your own data before you rely on them.

## What this section will contain

- **Partition count and throughput sizing:** how many partitions and virtual IPs to plan for a target produce and consume rate.
- **Producer and consumer settings by workload:** batching, acknowledgement and fetch settings for high-throughput and low-latency streams.
- **Retention and topic-table query patterns:** how long to keep events, and how to query topic tables efficiently.
- **Moving from Apache Kafka:** planning a migration of producers, consumers and Kafka tools.

Each page will say which VAST Cluster version and test setup its recommendations come from.

## Where to find how it works

The rest of the VAST Event Broker docs explain how each feature works, what each setting does and how to measure the result: [manage topics](/develop/docs/dev-event-broker-guides-topics), [producing](/develop/docs/dev-event-broker-guides-producing), [consuming](/develop/docs/dev-event-broker-guides-consuming), [querying topics](/develop/docs/dev-event-broker-guides-querying-topics), [limits](/develop/docs/dev-event-broker-reference-limits). Best-practices pages link to those pages rather than repeat them.

## Status

This section is being written. Until its pages are published, start with the pages above, and ask your VAST account team for guidance on your workload.