Integrating with Apache Kafka — Roadmap Step & Resources
Producing and consuming Kafka events from a Spring Boot service
- Level: advanced
- Estimated time: 2 days
- Roadmap: Java + Spring Boot
Before this step
Mini projects
- Build a producer/consumer pair that publishes order events and updates inventory via Kafka
Interview questions
- Kafka vs RabbitMQ — how would you decide which fits a given use case?
Study resources
- Introduction to Apache Kafka with Spring (Article) — Baeldung's comprehensive guide to producing and consuming Kafka events from Spring Boot.
- Spring Boot Kafka Tutorial (Video) — A practical tutorial building a producer/consumer pair with Kafka and Spring Boot.
Part of
- Messaging & Async Processing — section
- Java + Spring Boot roadmap — the full learning path