Kafka magic (microservice communication)

Talk presentation

• The advantages (but also the challenges) of using messaging for microservice communication.
• The more microservices we have, the more complicated communication between them can get.
• Handling changing applications/communication.
• How can we solve the problem, that when we change a service, dependent and related services don't break.
• Using Kafka as a messaging service.
• Let's have a look at what this looks like using messaging specifically Apache Kafka.
• Most common beginner pitfalls.
• What are the most common pitfalls when you start using Kafka in PHP and how to avoid them.