I haven't done Structured Streaming in Spark 2.1 with Kafka 0.9.x, but I
did do stream processing with Spark 2.0.1 and Kafka 0.10.
Here's the official documenation that I used for Spark Streaming with Kafka
0.10: https://spark.apache.org/docs/2.1.0/streaming-kafka-integration.html.
It looks like
Do you have Spark installed locally on your laptop with IntelliJ? Are you
using the SparkLauncher class or your local spark-submit script? A while
back, I was trying to submit a spark job from my local workstation to a
remote cluster using the SparkLauncher class, but I didn't actually have
SPARK