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title: "Spring Boot + Kafka in 10 Minutes (Your First Message)"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/spring-boot-kafka-in-10-minutes-your-first-message--5njijdfrz
source_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XW3f_39ipY
type: video:youtube
source: "Dan Vega"
published: 2026-05-18T15:55:02.614Z
updated: 2026-05-18T15:55:19.319Z
tags: ["java", "architecture", "spring-boot", "apache-kafka", "docker-compose"]
reading_time: 32
upvotes: 4
comments: 0
language: en
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# Spring Boot + Kafka in 10 Minutes (Your First Message)

**[Dan Vega](https://daily.dev/sources/dan-vega)** · 32 min read · 4 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

A beginner-friendly introduction to Spring for Apache Kafka, covering core Kafka concepts (topics, partitions, offsets, consumer groups) and how Spring simplifies Kafka integration. Walks through building a minimal Spring Boot project from scratch using Spring Initializr, configuring Docker Compose to run a local Kafka broker, creating a topic programmatically, sending a message with KafkaTemplate, consuming it with @KafkaListener, and writing an integration test using the embedded Kafka broker. Also demonstrates adding a Kafka UI dashboard for local development visibility.

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