KafkaWikiStream

KafkaWikiStream is a lightweight Spring Boot application designed to stream real-time edits from Wikimedia into Apache Kafka. It showcases a simple end-to-end pipeline that connects a public API to a Kafka topic for further processing or analysis.

🔍 What It Does

• Pulls live update events from the Wikimedia recent changes stream.
• Produces those events into an Apache Kafka topic.
• Includes a Kafka consumer that reads and logs the streamed data.

⚙️ Tech Stack

• Java 8 or higher
• Spring Boot
• Apache Kafka
• Maven

🚀 Getting Started

1. Start your Kafka server and Zookeeper.
2. Build the project using Maven: mvn clean install
3. Run the Producer and Consumer applications separately to stream and consume data.

📦 Structure

• Producer/ – Connects to Wikimedia and sends data to Kafka.
• Consumer/ – Subscribes to Kafka topic and logs incoming updates.

✅ Use Cases

1. Real-time data ingestion
2. Kafka practice for streaming architecture
3. Learning project for Spring Boot with Kafka integration

📁 Clone & Run

• git clone https://github.com/karthik-mogilipuram/SpringBoot-Kafka-Project.git