Spring Boot + Apache Kafka

Use Apache Kafka as a broker to exchange messages between Producer and Consumer in Spring Boot Application, using Wikimedia recent changes Event Stream Data.

Technical Implementation

• Install and setup Apache Kafka
• Create and setup multi-module Spring Boot project
  1. Module 1: kafka-consumer-database
  2. Module 2: kafka-producer-wikimedia
• Create two Microservices

Producer

• Configure Wikimedia Producer multi-level module and Create a Kafka Topic
• Implement Event Handler in Producer module
• Run and Test Wikimedia Producer Application

Consumer

• Configure Kafka Consumer
• Implement Kafka Listener for a topic with groupId
• Run and Test Consumer Application

MySql Database

• Configure DB in application properties of Consumer and Producer Applications
• Create Entity and JPA Repository
• Save Wikimedia Data into MySQL Database