Kafka Topics, Partitions & Consumer Groups Explained 🚀 | Rebalancing Deep Dive with Spring Boot Welcome to Backend Verse 🌿! In this video, we’ll deep dive into Kafka Topics, Partitions, Consumer Groups, and Rebalancing with a hands-on Spring Boot example. 🚀 Ever wondered: 👉 What are Kafka Topics & how do they store messages? 👉 How do Partitions help in scalability? 👉 What exactly are Consumer Groups & why are they powerful? 👉 What happens when a new consumer joins – how does Rebalancing work? We’ll break everything down with real-world analogies and Spring Boot integration. 🔥 📝 What You’ll Learn 📌 Kafka Topics & Partitions explained ⚡ Role of Consumer Groups in scaling consumers 🔑 Kafka Rebalancing deep dive (step-by-step) 🏷️ Hands-on Kafka with Spring Boot 💡 Real-world scenarios & best practices 🎯 Why Watch This Video? ✔️ Master Kafka’s core concepts with clarity ✔️ Learn Rebalancing – one of the trickiest Kafka topics ✔️ Understand Spring Boot Kafka consumer setup ✔️ Prepare for Kafka interviews with confidence 🔧 Tools & Technologies Used Java 17 Spring Boot Zookeeper Apache Kafka Gradle IntelliJ IDEA Docker Docker Compose Time Stamps 00:00 - Intro & What You'll Learn 01:44 - Create Topic in Spring Boot 02:30 - Consumer Groups Explained (4 Consumers: 2 per Group) 05:48 - Kafka Rebalancing 09:40 - Consumer Group Practical Test (Running Consumer JAR) 12:55 - Publish to a Specific Partition (Code) 15:35 - Publish to a Specific Partition (Practical Test with Consumer JAR) 16:19 - How to Publish to a Specific Partition (Spring Boot Producer Code) 19:12 - Message Ordering with Partition Key (Concept) 19:55 - Message Ordering with Partition Key (Spring Boot Code) 23:44 - Full Recap: Kafka in 30 Minutes 🚀 24:25 - What's Next in This Series 🔗 GitHub Code 👉 https://github.com/backendverse/sprin... 👉 https://github.com/backendverse/sprin... 👉 Watch the full Spring Boot series here: • Spring Boot Tutorial Series in Hindi 🌿 — S... 👉 Watch the full Spring Data JPA series here: • Spring Data JPA Mastery 🌿 | Complete Tutor... 👉 Watch the full Spring Boot Redis series here: • Spring Boot with Redis 🔥 | Caching, @Cache... 👉 Watch the full Apache Kafka series here: • Kafka Tutorials in Hindi 🔥| Beginners to P... 👉 Watch the full Java 8 series here: • Java 8 full course in Hindi 📢 Stay Connected 👍 Like the video if you found it helpful 💬 Drop your questions in the comments 🔔 Subscribe to Backend Verse for more Java & Spring Boot tutorials in Hindi #kafka #pubsub #eventdriven #restapi #backendverse #spring #springboot #pubsub #publisher #consumer #kafka