Installing apache Kafka on windows.

1. Download kafka latest version from apache kafka website .
    i have downloaded  Scala 2.11  - kafka_2.11-2.1.0.tgz.
    Using winzip or 7-zip extract the folder to some folder. In my case i have downloaded
     to D:\Learnings\kafka_2.12-2.1.0

       Now let us investigate the folders structure.
         
   

 bin - this folder consists of shell file
          note : you can see windows folder in bin which has bat files for windows.
 config - consists of all the required configuration
 libs - consists of dependency libraries like zoo-keeper and others.

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