How to Install and Run a Kafka Cluster Locally

This tutorial will show you how to install and run a Kafka cluster on your machine, and demonstrate some important concepts about the architecture of Kafka. Apache Kafka is a distributed streaming platform. It can be used for anything ranging from a distributed message broker to a platform for processing data streams. Let’s see how we can get a production quality Kafka cluster running with the least effort possible. Installation First, we need to install Java in order to run the Kafka executables....

Last Updated:   · Soham Kamani