Kafka with EBS on AWS : Raid-0 striping or multiple dirs in log.dirs

AWS confluent quickstart configures Kafka log.dirs with 4 - 512GB EBS block devices with RAID-0 striping for higher throughput and also helps bypass the 1TB limit of block devices without provisioned IOPS. I have just come across

Unable to start Sink connectors[Confluent Kafka]

Starting Sink connector on Confluent Kafka setup throws up the below exception, understand that it is because of some configured interceptor, any advice on how to disable it? [2017-12-20 06:51:11,235] ERROR Task {} failed initialization and will not be started.

KStream: Error Reading and Writing Avro records

I’m trying to write avro record that I read from a topic into another topic, intentions it to augment it with transformation after I get this routing working. I have used the KStream with avro code from one of the example with some modifications to connect to Schema Registry for retrieving the