I tested your claims that "it used to work that way", and was unable
to reproduce them. As far as I can tell, streams have always failed
the very first time you start them in that situation. As Chris and I
pointed out, there are good reasons for that.
If you don't wan't to operationalize topic
Cody,
Thanks for your comments.
The way I'm reading the Kafka documentation (
https://kafka.apache.org/documentation) is that auto.create.topics.enable
is set to true by default. Right now it's not set in our server.properties
on the Kafka broker side so I would imagine that the first request to
