From c9eebaa18e1ce28f5fd9d694b009e13cda97fee2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jongho Jeon
So before you can write your first events, you must create a topic. Open another terminal session and run:
$ bin/kafka-topics.sh --create --topic quickstart-events --bootstrap-server localhost:9092
+ $ bin/kafka-topics.sh --create --topic quickstart-events --partitions 3 --replication-factor 1 --bootstrap-server localhost:9092
All of Kafka's command line tools have additional options: run the kafka-topics.sh command without any