README.md

Simple Application using:

Spring Boot Reactive and Apache Kafka

Summary:

Producer Client: Pulls data from Wikimedia and sends it to Kafka.
Kafka Broker: Acts as a message broker, storing and managing the messages.
Consumer Client: Retrieves the data from Kafka for processing or further use.

Commands for windows

Start the zookeeper

bin\windows\zookeeper-server-start.bat config\zookeeper.properties

Start Kafka server

bin\windows\kafka-server-start.bat .\config\server.properties

To list topics

bin\windows\kafka-topics.bat --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --list

N.B: These commands are for windows users