VDubinator Coder

I've recently had the opportunity to tinker with Kafka. What a great tool it is! There's such potential there and I'm only getting started with it. I can't wait to see how we use it at work! One issue that I'm running into with the documentation and tutorials I'm following is that they're often written for a Unix system but the company I work for is a Windows shop. Fortunately we have Docker, but many of the commands in the tutorials are written assuming a shell like Bash and not Powershell. This has led me to some frustration and some head scratching mainly because I'm much more comfortable with Bash than I am with Powershell. I bounced around to a few tutorials and different ways of implementing Kafka before landing on Confluent's platform. I don't know if I'll use this one long-term, but I wanted to share the adaptations I needed to make to the tutorial I followed. The tutorial I followed is called " Clustered Deployment on Docke

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