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Self-contained Kafka demo for developers coming from RabbitMQ

by mkumm·Mar 30, 2026·3 points·0 comments
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Complete Kafka pipeline demo with live dashboard, but it's a teaching repo not a product.

Strengths
  • •Multi-service pipeline with K8s orchestration runs locally in minutes
  • •Live traffic dashboard visualizes event flow clearly
  • •Claude Code skill automates setup and teardown
Weaknesses
  • •Educational demo without production use case beyond learning
  • •Many Kafka tutorials and demos already exist with similar patterns
Target Audience

Developers learning Kafka, especially those coming from RabbitMQ

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Confluent Kafka tutorials · Kafka quickstart examples

Post Description

I'm an Elixir developer with a RabbitMQ background, currently learning C# and Kafka. To make the concepts stick, I built this self-contained demo — it gets you up and running in about 5 minutes.

It helped me understand the practical differences between Kafka and RabbitMQ. Sharing it in case it's useful to others in a similar spot. There's also a Claude AI skill included for setup and teardown (/kafka-demo).

Curious what other Kafka demos or learning resources people have found useful.

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