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In the previous post Kafka Tutorial - Java Producer and Consumer we have learned how to implement a Producer and Consumer for a Kafka topic using plain Java Client API.

In this post we are going to look at how to use Spring for Kafka which provides high level abstraction over Kafka Java Client API to make it easier to work with Kafka.

Kafka, depending on how you use it, can be seen as a Message Broker, Event Store or a Streaming Platform etc. Kafka became a preferred technology for many of the modern applications because of various reasons like:

• Kafka can be used as an Event Store if you are using Event Driven Microservices architecture
• Kafka can be used as a Message Broker to enable communication across multiple applications
• Kafka can be used as Streaming platform for processing events in realtime etc etc.