Java, a cornerstone of modern software development, is built upon a few foundational concepts. Among these, classes and objects stand out as the bedrock of Java’s Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) paradigm. In this article, we’ll demystify these concepts using a relatable example: the House class.

In this series of articles we will see the different methods that we can use in order to produce data to a topic, and the way to consume it. We will start by setting up a local environment using docker and docker-compose. Once the kafka ecosystem is ready we will create a topic, than produce some data and consume it via CLI.