Installing Kafka on WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux)

Kafka is a robust event streaming platform that is used by a lot of companies these days. As companies and developers adopt an event-driven architecture, advanced data pipelines, and real-time analytics - Kafka is often the default platform of choice. The project itself is open-source and I’ve noticed a lot of “managed” Kafka offering around. I myself have been using a flavour of Kafka (Azure Event Hubs ) quite a lot in my projects and startups....

September 2022 · Michael John Peña