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 ## Running Vortex
 ### Locally
-Before you can run Vortex locally you must have a running instance of Kafka and MongoDB locally or forwarded from a remote cluster.  
+Before you can run Vortex locally, you must have a running instance of Kafka and MongoDB locally or forwarded from a remote cluster.  
 
 After that you can run Vortex locally simply by using the following command, which will immediately start the processing of incoming messages:
 ```shell