Kafka 0.8 Quick Start
http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#gettingStarted
Kafka Start Scripts
bin/zookeeper-server-start.sh config/zookeeper.properties
bin/kafka-server-start.sh config/server.properties
bin/kafka-create-topic.sh --zookeeper localhost:2181 --replica 1 --partition 1 --topic test
bin/kafka-list-topic.sh --zookeeper localhost:2181