Using Confluent to run your Kafka infrastructure

Using a local running Kafka is obviously the best, fastest and simplest way to start playing with Kafka, and that’s exactly what I did and described in two previous articles, Write a Kafka producer with Java using Spring Boot and Write a Kafka consumer with Java using Spring Boot.

The next step in the journey is clearly centralize and scale Kafka infrastructure to support truly distributed applications and more meaningful use cases.

Nowadays for practically everything in the modern IT domain tools landscape there are…