Kafka With Spring WebFlux: Reactive Messaging Made Easy

Kafka is a distributed event streaming platform that works seamlessly with Spring WebFlux to build reactive, non-blocking microservices. In this guide, we'll walk through step-by-step how to integrate Kafka with Spring WebFlux for reactive messaging.  


  
  
  1. Why Kafka with Spring WebFlux?

Using Kafka with WebFlux allows us to:
✅ Process messages asynchronously and reactively.
✅ Handle high-throughput event streams efficiently.
✅ Scale consumers using Kafka’s consumer groups.
✅ Avoid blocking threads, improving resource efficiency.  

  
  
  2. Setting Up Kafka in Spring Boot...