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+# kafka-boot
+## kafka-producer-consumer-with-spring-boot
+
+Simple Spring Boot app to consume the published message into a Kafka topic through a simple Rest API:
+/messages/publish/{msg}
+
+<pre>
+ _   __         __  _           ______                _   
+| | / /        / _|| |          | ___ \              | |  
+| |/ /   __ _ | |_ | | __  __ _ | |_/ /  ___    ___  | |_ 
+|    \  / _` ||  _|| |/ / / _` || ___ \ / _ \  / _ \ | __|
+| |\  \| (_| || |  |   < | (_| || |_/ /| (_) || (_) || |_ 
+\_| \_/ \__,_||_|  |_|\_\ \__,_|\____/  \___/  \___/  \__|
+Supersonic Java with Spring Boot ☕️💚
+</pre>
+
+### Kafka producer
+
+- Launch Zookeeper server
+
+```shell
+  ${KAFKA_HOME}/bin/zookeeper-server-start.sh ./config/zookeeper.properties
+```
+
+- Launch Kafka server
+
+```shell
+  ${KAFKA_HOME}/bin/kafka-server-start.sh ./config/server.properties
+```
+
+- Create new Topic called 'NewTopic'
+
+```shell
+  ${KAFKA_HOME}/bin/kafka-console-consumer.sh --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --topic NewTopic --from-beginning
+```
+
+### Kafka consumer (optional)
+
+- Launch a consumer message streamer
+
+```shell
+  ${KAFKA_HOME}/bin/kafka-console-producer --broker-list localhost:9092 --topic NewTopic
+```