1. Download KAFKA:

   wget http://mirror.softaculous.com/apache/kafka/0.10.2.1/kafka_2.10-0.10.2.1.tgz

2. Extract downloaded file:

   tar -xvzf kafka_2.10-0.10.2.1.tgz

3. Goto extracted Kafka folder and start Zookeeper:

   ./bin/zookeeper-server-start.sh config/zookeeper.properties

4. Open another Terminal. Goto extracted Kafka folder and start Kafka:

   ./bin/kafka-server-start.sh config/server.properties

5. Create topic “emailGrabber”

   ./bin/kafka-topics.sh --create --topic emailGrabber --zookeeper locahost:2181 --partitions 1 --replication-factor 1

6. Consumer

   ./bin/kafka-console-consumer.sh --zookeeper localhost:2181 --topic emailGrabber --from beginning

7. Producer

   ./bin/kafka-console-producer.sh --broker-list localhost:9092 --topic emailGrabber

8. Check the message sequence order:

   > cd /tmp/kafka-logs/emailGrabber
   > ls
   > cat *.log

9. Happy Coding!

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