Kafka in Action

4 Producers: Sourcing data

This chapters covers

• Sending messages and the producer
• Creating our own producer serializers and partitioners
• Examining configuration options to solve a company’s requirements

In the previous chapter, we looked at the requirements that an organization might have regarding their data. Some design decisions we made have practical impacts on how we send data to Kafka. Let’s now enter the world of an event-streaming platform through the portal gate of a Kafka producer. After reading this chapter, you will be well on your way to solving fundamental requirements of a Kafka project by producing data in a couple of different ways.

The producer, despite its importance, is only one part of this system. In fact, we can change ...