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Windows non-WSL2: Start ZooKeeper and Kafka

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Windows non-WSL2: Start ZooKeeper and Kafka

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Okay. So we are going to set up Kafka on Windows Non-WSL2, but it can work. But there are caveats. You should know you cannot delete topics or you will have an error and you can google Kafka-8112 have a look. And if you use it for more than a week, then a segment will be deleted and then you will have an error named Kafka 1194. So these errors are fatal errors and you will not be able to recover Kafka from it unless you clean all the data in Kafka and then restart Kafka fresh. So my point is, if you're using Windows, as soon as you are going to do some important stuff in Kafka, things are going to crash and you're going to complain to me. So my recommendation is if you can please do the steps from before using Kafka Windows WSL2 because this is the most stable way of doing Kafka. Else, I recommend that you start Kafka within Conduktor. This is why we built this feature, is to really help you avoid these issues. For example, we disabled topic deletion and we make sure that data is kept…

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