Spring Kafka Beyond the Basics - Lessons Learned on Our Kafka Journey at ING Bank

Explore advanced Spring Kafka concepts and real-world implementation strategies in this 44-minute conference talk from Spring I/O 2022. Delve into lessons learned from production Kafka projects at ING Bank, covering crucial topics such as handling poison pills, effective exception management, data validation, integration testing, distributed tracing, and performance monitoring. Gain valuable insights on overcoming common challenges and optimizing your Spring Kafka applications for production environments. Access accompanying slides and GitHub repository for comprehensive understanding and practical application of the discussed concepts.

Introduction
Kafka in a nutshell
Spring for Apache Kafka
Scenario: Poison Pill Deserialization exception
Scenario: Lack of proper exception handling
Testing
Monitoring
Lessons learned