Spring Boot + Kafka || Kafka With and Without Zookeeper ||

🚀 In this step-by-step tutorial, I will show you how to integrate Apache Kafka with a Spring Boot application, and how to publish & consume messages in multiple formats—including String, Long, and JSON.

Whether you are a beginner or an experienced backend Java developer, this video will help you understand Kafka architecture, configuration, and real-time message streaming in the simplest way.

🔥 What You’ll Learn in This Video

✔️ How Kafka works with Spring Boot
✔️ How to configure Kafka storage UUID for KRaft mode
✔️ How to publish messages to Kafka topic
✔️ How to consume messages using Kafka Consumer
✔️ Kafka producer & consumer configuration in Spring Boot
✔️ Practical API testing using Postman
✔️ Fixing common Kafka errors during startup
✔️ Real-time message streaming demo

🛠️ Technologies Used:

Spring Boot
Apache Kafka
Kafka KRaft (Without ZooKeeper)
ZooKeeper (Legacy mode)
Java
Postman

⭐ Why You Should Watch This Video

Kafka is one of the most demanded technologies in microservices architecture. In this video, you’ll learn everything from starting Kafka servers to writing fully working Producer & Consumer code — perfect for interviews, real projects, and microservices development.

📂 Source Code / Setup Commands (Explained in Video)

Kafka installation, server startup commands, KRaft mode configuration, producer/consumer code—all are explained clearly with examples.

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