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by lz400 1825 days ago
Using confluent platform community (free) gives you a working env with Kafka/Zookeeper/SchemaRegistry/Connect immediately without having to bother with setting up clusters, etc. Beyond that, yes, it's a pain to properly setup and I think most of the time you're looking at managed options unless you want to invest in a SRE team.