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

In this post, we are going to look at how to use Spring for Kafka, which provides a high-level abstraction over the 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 modern applications because of various reasons, like:

• Kafka can be used as an Event Store if you are using an event-driven microservices architecture.
• Kafka can be used as a Message Broker to enable communication across multiple applications.
• Kafka can be used as a streaming platform for processing events in real-time. etc. etc.