"# springboot-kafka-tutorial" Spring Boot with Kafka is a powerful combination for building real-time, event-driven, and distributed systems What is Kafka?

Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform.

It is designed for high-throughput, low-latency messaging.

Used for:

Event streaming

Log aggregation

Messaging systems

Real-time analytics pipelines

Key components:

Producer → Publishes events (messages) to Kafka topics.

Consumer → Reads events from Kafka topics.

Broker → Kafka server that stores data.

Topic → A category or feed name to which records are sent.