While there are many great tutorials to integrate Java and Python applications into Kafka, PHP is often left out. However, by offering scalability, high performance and high availability, Kafka is a very promising data infrastructure for combining legacy applications (such as PHP monoliths) with modern microservices. This article shows you how to setup a Kafka-PHP development environment from scratch using Docker and how to send your first message from a PHP application to a Kafka topic. Architecture Overview For this ...

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