Apache Kafka, the event streaming bus that started life at LinkedIn, has become very popular over the last few years. Kafka has lots of strengths — but is it always the right choice? Kafka can scale to handle very high throughputs — much higher than most message queueing systems. …

This is second in a series of articles for developers about working with Kafka. We are covering the practicalities of running Kafka on your development machine, how to write code that uses it, and how to write reliable tests. …

I wrote this blog mainly as a way for me to organise my understanding of Kafka in a logical step-by-step way. It explains how you can install a local Kafka broker for application development, and how to use Kafka in Spring Boot applications. …