Kafka has become a very popular distributed message delivery service which decouples different services while making message delivery between service easy, fast and reliable. In this post, we will walk through how to install and set up Kafka on Windows.Pre-requisiteJavaApache ZooKeeperInstallationGo to Kafka's download link and download the latest stable release, we downloaded 2.2.0 as of this writing. After downloading, copy the installation file to some folder and unzip it. Since Kafka uses ZooKeeper, so you also need to install ZooKeeper, The download link is at http://zookeeper.a...