Creating A Kafka Consumer A Basic Example

# Creating A Kafka Consumer: A Basic Example Imagine a bustling city, constantly generating information – traffic updates, weather reports, financial transactions. Apache Kafka is the central nervous system of this city, efficiently collecting and distributing this data. But data is useless unless someone is *reading* and *using* it. That's where Kafka Consumers come in. They're the applications that subscribe to Kafka topics and process the streams of data flowing through them. Learning how