Confluent

By default, the Confluent Kafka client consumes one message at time, but with a bit of work it can consume batches of messages.

The Consume method of the Kafka Confluent library for C# is synchronous, this post shows you how to use it in a non-blocking way.

Using Kafka to broadcast a message to all instances of an application seems to be a less common use case than using Kafka to send a message to one of many instances of an application. But broadcasting is easy to do with a single change to the consumer.

It is strangely difficult to find an easy way to run Apache Kafka on Windows. This post explains how to do just that.

I found it challenging to find simple steps to get Kafka running and then use it with .NET. This post explains how to do both.