kafka-producer-avro-specific

Producer Avro Specific

This module demonstrates the following:

• The use of the Kafka Clients producer API.
• The use of Apache Avro and specific records.
• Unit testing using a Mock producer.

This module produces records of type <String, KafkaUser> to a topic named USER_TOPIC.

Prerequisites

To compile and run this demo, you will need the following:

• Java 21
• Maven
• Docker

Running the Application

To run the application manually:

• Start a Confluent Platform in a Docker environment.
• Start the producer.

To run the application in Docker, use the following command:

docker-compose up -d

This command will start the following services in Docker:

• 1 Kafka broker (KRaft mode)
• 1 Schema registry
• 1 Control Center
• 1 producer Avro Specific