Introduction to Kafka with Spring Boot

Learn how to create robust Kafka implementations using Spring Boot 3 and Apache Kafka

Created by: John Thompson • 500,000+ Enrollments Worldwide
Spring Framework Guru - Best Selling Instructor

Created by: Dan Edwards
Experienced Principal Engineer - Java, Spring, Microservices

Created by: Rob Golder
Java, Kafka, Spring and Spring Boot Specialist

Created by: Rob Hemmings
Experienced Java, Spring, Kafka Engineer

What Will I Learn?

• Learn what Kafka is and how it works
• How to install and run Kafka locally
• Create a Spring Boot application that integrates with Kafka
• Unit testing and Integration testing for Kafka
• Consuming and Producing messages with Spring Kafka
• Learn how to retry failed Kafka messages
• Spring Boot integration tests with the embedded Kafka broker
• Serialization and the different formats, including Strings and JSON
• Dead letter topics
• Learn all the core Kafka messaging concepts including messages, topics, partitions and keys
• Message ordering - ensuring your messages are consumed in the correct sequence
• Cover the important Spring and Spring Kafka annotations
• How to configure your Kafka Spring Beans
• How to use Wiremock to trigger failure scenarios that we can test
• Consumer groups, rebalancing, and consumer failover
• Understand the role of consumer offsets
• Use command line tools to send and receive messages and query the broker state
• Understand why Zookeeper is being replaced with KRaft
• Learn the key differences between other popular messaging brokers

Requirements

• Basic Java knowledge
• Basic Spring knowledge
• Java 17 (required for Spring Boot 3)
• Maven

Target audience

• This course is ideal for Java developers who wish to use Spring Boot to develop enterprise applications that use Kafka as the messaging broker for asynchronous event driven communication.