Messaging and Integration

Messaging services such as Kafka or RabbitMQ can receive and sort a large number of messages while serving consumers at scale.

Guides

Build a Scalable, Fault-Tolerant Messaging Cluster on Kubernetes with Apache Kafka and MongoDB

Integrate Kafka with MongoDB to create scalable, fault-tolerant messaging on Kubernetes

Getting Started with Spring Cloud Gateway

Explore this Spring Cloud Gateway guide to look at the code that goes around defining a gateway and running a gateway with a Spring Boot application.

Getting Started with Spring Cloud Stream

Leverage Spring Cloud Stream, a framework for building highly scalable, event-driven microservices for your enterprise needs.

Getting Started with Kafka

Leverage Apache Kafka, a distributed streaming platform built for storing and processing streams of records, while focusing on performance.

Getting Started with RabbitMQ

Leverage RabbitMQ, an open source message broker that is lightweight and easy to deploy on premises and in the cloud.

Spring Cloud Connectors and Datasources

What is Spring Cloud Gateway?

Discover the basics and importance of Spring Cloud Gateway, a library for building API gateways on top of Spring and Java.

What is Spring Cloud Stream?

Discover how to use Spring Cloud Stream, a framework for building highly scalable, event-driven microservices connected with shared messaging systems.

Videos

Creating & Deploying Spring Cloud Stream Apps with Spring Cloud Data Flow

Creating a http-log stream with Spring Cloud Data Flow

Getting Started With The Spring Cloud Data Flow CLI Tool

Installing Spring Cloud Data Flow Locally On Kubernetes With Helm

Spring Cloud Stream Processors And Scripted Deployments With Spring Cloud Data Flow

Spring Live: Developing fault-tolerant stream processing application with Kafka Streams and Kubernetes

Code Samples

Getting Started with Kafka

An example of how to connect to, send, and receive messages from Kafka.

Getting Started with RabbitMQ

An example of how to connect to, send, and receive messages from RabbitMQ in several languages.

Spring Boot Data REST Demo with JPA

Build a basic Spring Boot application that uses JPA to access a database

Spring Cloud Stream Demo

Simple Event Driven Microservices with Spring Cloud Stream

Blogs

Understanding the Differences Between RabbitMQ vs Kafka

Which is better RabbitMQ or Kafka? This article will outline the functionality offered by both messaging systems and help you make an informed decision when choosing a platform.