Kafka

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

A simple command is all that is needed to run Apache Kafka in Docker

It seems none of the Docker images of Kafka have sufficient instructions to run the container, and access it from the host computer. Here I show how to get bitnami/kafka working.

Getting Confluent Kafka working in Linux is not as easy as in Windows, but it can be done.

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.