Getting Started with Apache Kafka & Spring Boot

Apache Kafka is a key component of modern distributed and microservices architectures. In my latest article, we provide a clear, step-by-step, and hands-on introduction to Apache Kafka, along with a practical implementation using Spring Boot.

🎯 Article Objectives

By the end of this article, you will be able to:
✅ Understand the core Kafka concepts (Broker, Topic, Partition, Offset, Producer, Consumer, Consumer Group)
✅ Understand how Kafka enables asynchronous communication between microservices
✅ Learn the modern Kafka architecture using KRaft (without ZooKeeper)
✅ Install and run Apache Kafka locally
✅ Create a Producer and a Consumer with Spring Boot
✅ Test message production and consumption using Postman

🧰 Prerequisites: Java 17+, Maven, Spring Boot, fundamental concepts of microservices, an IDE (IntelliJ IDEA / Eclipse), and Postman.

📖 Full article: https://lnkd.in/d_z6Aa7b

💻 Source code: https://lnkd.in/dCv4kAut