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Kafka with Python (kafka-python)

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Use kafka-python for simple producer/consumer with JSON serialization in Python applications.

Kafka Python Client

pip install kafka-python

# Producer
from kafka import KafkaProducer
import json

producer = KafkaProducer(
    bootstrap_servers='localhost:9092',
    value_serializer=lambda v: json.dumps(v).encode('utf-8'),
    key_serializer=lambda k: k.encode('utf-8') if k else None
)

producer.send('orders', key='user-1', value={'total': 99.99, 'status': 'pending'})
producer.flush()

# Consumer
from kafka import KafkaConsumer

consumer = KafkaConsumer(
    'orders',
    bootstrap_servers='localhost:9092',
    group_id='order-service',
    auto_offset_reset='earliest',
    value_deserializer=lambda m: json.loads(m.decode('utf-8'))
)

for message in consumer:
    print(message.partition, message.offset, message.value)