Getting Started with Apache Kafka on macOS: Run a Broker and Stream Events with Python
This tutorial ends with an Apache Kafka broker running in Docker on your Mac, a topic named orders, and two Python programs that talk to it: a producer that publishes JSON order events and a consumer that reads them. You will then use those programs to show the property that makes Kafka different from a job queue. Reading a message does not remove it, so a consumer that restarts picks up where it stopped, and a second, independent consumer can replay the whole history from the beginning. You will see both happen, and measure how far behind a consumer is, with Kafka’s own tools. ...