Essential Guide for Software Engineers: Interview Questions, Development Tips, and Best Practices

Spring Boot provides a Kafka connector, which allows you to easily set up a Kafka producer or consumer in a Spring application. To integrate Kafka with a Spring Boot application, you will need to add the spring-kafka dependency to your project. You will also need to configure the Kafka connection properties and provide the necessary serializers and deserializers for the messages being sent or received. Once this is done, you can use the Spring Kafka template to send and receive messages to and from a Kafka topic. Example of how to set up a Kafka producer in a Spring Boot application: 1. Add the spring-kafka dependency to your project's pom.xml file: <dependency>      <groupId>org.springframework.kafka</groupId>      <artifactId>spring-kafka</artifactId>      <version>2.5.4.RELEASE</version> </dependency> 2. Create a configuration class that sets up the Kafka connection properties and the necessa...