---
title: "Building Real-time Applications with Amplication and Kafka"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/building-real-time-applications-with-amplication-and-kafka-uisnyfkkn
source_url: https://amplication.com/blog/building-real-time-applications-with-amplication-and-kafka
type: article
source: "Amplication"
author: "Muly Gottlieb"
published: 2023-11-14T09:08:26.965Z
updated: 2023-11-15T06:00:06.714Z
tags: ["nodejs", "architecture", "backend", "kafka", "microservices", "amplication"]
reading_time: 11
upvotes: 47
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# 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.

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**@otmane** · 0 upvotes

> nice

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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)

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