NestJs + Kafka (Event Driven & Request-Reply Pattern)

In this video, I’ll walk you through setting up Kafka with NestJS, covering everything from producers and consumers to message partitioning for efficient event-driven architecture. What You’ll Learn: ✅ Setting up Kafka locally with Bitnami ✅ Creating an Order Service (Producer), Logs Service (Consumer), and Notifications Service (Consumer) ✅ Understanding consumer groups and how they handle messages ✅ Partitioning messages for scalability and ordering ✅ Using keys to ensure related messages go to the same partition ✅ Handling Kafka messages in NestJS with emit() and send() Buy me a coffee : https://buymeacoffee.com/computerix 📌 Chapters: 0:00 - Introduction 0:27 - Setting Up Kafka Locally 2:32 - Creating the Order Service (Producer) 5:32 - Sending messages to Kafka 7:41 - Monitoring our Kafka Server 8:57 - Creating the Notifications Service (Consumer) 13:08 - Accessing the Kafka Context 15:40 - Understanding Partitions & Consumer Groups 19:27 - Creating A Second Partition 21:30 - Running a Second Instance of Notifications Service 25:22 - Maintaining Message Ordering with Keys 28:15 - Creating a Second Consumer Group (Logs Consumer) 31:48 - Implementing the Request-Reply Pattern 41:03 - Video Summary