Worked with RabbitMQ — do you have experience with Kafka?

Yes, I have experience working with Kafka. Unlike RabbitMQ, which is focused on message queues and provides reliable delivery with acknowledgments, Kafka is a distributed data streaming platform that is well-suited for processing large volumes of events in real-time.

For example, in one of my projects, I configured Kafka producers and consumers to transmit logs and metrics from microservices to a monitoring system. I used topics with multiple partitions for scaling and ensured message processing with consumer groups.

Here's an example of a simple producer in Java using the Kafka Producer API:

Properties props = new Properties();
props.put("bootstrap.servers", "localhost:9092");
props.put("key.serializer", "org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringSerializer");
props.put("value.serializer", "org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringSerializer");

KafkaProducer<String, String> producer = new KafkaProducer<>(props);
producer.send(new ProducerRecord<>("my-topic", "key1", "value1"));
producer.close();

Thus, Kafka allows efficient processing of large data streams with high throughput and low latency.