This guy documented a few struggles getting going with Kafka. Not sure if there is anything we can do to make it better? http://ispyker.blogspot.com/2014/10/kafka-part-1.html
1. Would be great to figure out the apache/gradle thing. 2. The problem of having Kafka advertise localhost on AWS is really common. I was thinking one possible solution for this would be to get all the interfaces and prefer non-localhost interfaces if they exist. -Jay
