How to Integrate Apache Kafka with Spring Boot: A Production-Ready Guide

Short summary

Tutorial for building a production-grade Spring Boot application that sends and receives JSON messages via Apache Kafka. Covers Docker setup with KRaft mode, type-safe serialization, and ErrorHandlingDeserializer to prevent poison-pill messages—production concerns typically skipped in hello-world guides. Includes complete code examples for producers, consumers, and graceful error handling.

• •Docker-based Kafka setup with KRaft mode, eliminating Zookeeper complexity
• •Type-safe JSON serialization and deserialization with configurable error handling
• •Production patterns: message poisoning prevention, consumer groups, partition assignment, failure callbacks

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