--- title: Building Real-time Applications with Amplication and Kafka description: This article discusses the importance of real-time communication in modern applications and introduces Kafka as a tool for building real-time systems. It... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/building-real-time-applications-with-amplication-and-kafka-uisnyfkkn twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Building Real-time Applications with Amplication and Kafka | daily.dev og:description: This article discusses the importance of real-time communication in modern applications and introduces Kafka as a tool for building real-time systems. It... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/building-real-time-applications-with-amplication-and-kafka-uisnyfkkn og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/uIsNyfkKn.png og:image:alt: Building Real-time Applications with Amplication and Kafka og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Building Real-time Applications with Amplication and Kafka **[Amplication](https://daily.dev/sources/amplication)** · [@mulyg](https://daily.dev/mulyg) · 11 min read · 47 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary This article discusses the importance of real-time communication in modern applications and introduces Kafka as a tool for building real-time systems. It explains the components of Kafka and how it works on a publish-subscribe model. The article then demonstrates how to build an application with Kafka using Amplication, a platform that generates production-ready backend services. It provides step-by-step instructions for setting up an Amplication project, creating entities, adding a message broker and topics, configuring microservices, and adding custom Kafka communication logic. The article also highlights the benefits of using Amplication to speed up microservice development and ensure seamless event-driven communication. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@otmane** · 0 upvotes > nice --- Tags: [#nodejs](https://daily.dev/tags/nodejs), [#architecture](https://daily.dev/tags/architecture), [#backend](https://daily.dev/tags/backend), [#kafka](https://daily.dev/tags/kafka), [#microservices](https://daily.dev/tags/microservices), [#amplication](https://daily.dev/tags/amplication) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/building-real-time-applications-with-amplication-and-kafka-uisnyfkkn) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Building Real-time Applications with Amplication and Kafka","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/building-real-time-applications-with-amplication-and-kafka-uisnyfkkn","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/building-real-time-applications-with-amplication-and-kafka-uisnyfkkn"},"datePublished":"2023-11-14T09:08:26.965Z","dateModified":"2023-11-15T06:00:06.714Z","description":"This article discusses the importance of real-time communication in modern applications and introduces Kafka as a tool for building real-time systems. 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