Spring Kafka

Conventions for integrating Apache Kafka with Spring Boot. Covers consumer and producer configuration, error handling strategies, serialization, and testing with embedded Kafka. Use this skill when building event-driven systems with Kafka.

When to Use

• Creating @KafkaListener consumers
• Configuring KafkaTemplate for producing messages
• Handling deserialization errors and dead letter topics
• Setting up consumer error handling and retry policies
• Testing with @EmbeddedKafka or Testcontainers
• Configuring Avro serialization with Schema Registry