What’s in Our Kafka Tool Belt: A Summary

We learned various concepts and commands that will help us develop, debug, analyze, and understand our Kafka Streams applications. In this lesson, we’ll summarize the important takeaways, which you could use as a reference during the following chapters of the course and your actual work!

Console producer

The trigger for our Kafka Streams applications is always an incoming message from a Kafka topic. To verify that our topologies are running as expected, we can publish messages using the kafka-console-producer command: