Confluent's RBAC in KRaft mode with Ansible

Getting started with @EmbeddedKafka and Spring Kafka auto-configuration in a @SpringBootTest made working together despite mismatching defaults by adjusting bootstrapServersProperty

In Event-driven architecture there are unique identifiers everywhere: at entity level, at event level, at process level etc. In this blog post, I will show you a de facto standard for how you could easily generate, persist, serialize and deserialize IDs natively through Kafka, Java and JPA.

Containers are a solution to the problem of how to get the software to run when moved from one computing environment to another. Especially with Docker, as container solution, started a new DevOps trend. We, as software engineers, leverage this technology to ship our software to any environment.

Almost two years have passed since I wrote my first integration test for a Kafka Spring Boot application. It took me a lot of research to write this first integration test and I eventually ended up to write a blog post on testing Kafka with Spring Boot. There was not too much information out there about writing those tests and at the end it was really simple to do it, but undocumented. I have seen a lot of feedback and interaction with my previous blog post and the GitHub Gist. Since then spring-kafka-test changed two times the usage pattern and JUnit 5 has been introduces. That means the…