Introduction This is a guide on how to run Apache Kafka® locally, and how to start using it. I found the resources I used myself to be needlessly and frustratingly complicated, as well as outdated. Thus my goal is to give a simple set of instructions that works almost everywhere,

Introduction This post is intented to give a high-level description of the basic components of Apache Kafka® (Kafka) for someone that is entirely new to it, and that is sufficient to get building. For significantly more detail and nuance, refer to the official documentation. Records Records are the fundamental units