Springboot-kafka Realtime API Stream

Spring Boot and Apache Kafka to consume real time data changes from Wikimedia API

Features

• Uses the Wikimedia API to stream recent changes in real-time
• Publish events to Kafka topic
• Consume events from Kafka topic using Spring Kafka
• Stream events to a client (browser) using WebFlux SSE (Server-Sent Events)

Prerequisites

• Apache Kafka installed on your machine

Getting Started

This will help get started locally amd do well to check the application.properties of each module for the kafka configurations

• Click on the 'Clone or download' button and select 'Download Zip.'

• At the root of the project, Build the project with Maven: mvn clean install

• Start the Kafka producer module:

cd kafka-producer-api
mvn spring-boot:run

• Start the Kafka consumer module:

cd ../kafka-consumer-api
mvn spring-boot:run

• Open your web browser and go to http://localhost:8081/stream to see the real-time data streaming.