Kafka Example

This is a very simple application to demonstrate how to set up a Kafka instance, create a consumer and a producer, and send and receive messages.

Setup

1. Create a virtual environment
2. Install required libraries

pip3 install -r requirements.txt 

3. Run Kafka using Docker Compose

docker compose up

4. Run tracker.py

python3 src/tracker.py

5. Run producer.py

python3 src/producer.py

6. Confirm messages in terminal