Building Data Streaming Applications with Apache Kafka

Kafka Producer APIs

Kafka has provided you with a rich set of APIs to create applications to interact with it. We will go through Producer API details and understand its uses.

Creating a Kafka producer involves the following steps:

1. Required configuration.
2. Creating a producer object.
3. Setting up a producer record.
4. Creating a custom partition if required.
5. Additional configuration.

Required configuration: In most applications, we first start with creating the initial configuration without which we cannot run the application. The following are three mandatory configuration parameters:

• bootstrap.servers: This contains a list of Kafka brokers addresses. The address is specified in terms of hostname:port. We can specify one or more broker detail, ...