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Please keep the discussion on the mailing list rather than commenting on the wiki (wiki discussions get unwieldy fast).
Motivation
Currently, to have metadata for Kafka topics we have need to use external storage (e.g. a database) and we need to keep it in synch with Kafka.
- A topic is deleted, how to delete its metadata?
- How to deal with topics created by KafkaStream
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- , KafkaConnect, or KafkaAdmin.
Making Kafka self-sufficient in this aspect sounds good.
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