{"id":6,"date":"2026-08-12T08:34:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T08:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/corpolearn.wp\/software\/\/event-driven-microservices-nodejs-kafka\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T08:34:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T08:34:42","slug":"event-driven-microservices-nodejs-kafka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corpolearn.com\/software\/event-driven-microservices-nodejs-kafka\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Started with Event-Driven Microservices using Node.js &#038; Kafka"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Event-driven architecture decouples microservices by processing asynchronous event streams rather than synchronous HTTP requests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Kafka Consumer Implementation in Node.js<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>const { Kafka } = require('kafkajs');\n\nconst kafka = new Kafka({\n  clientId: 'order-service',\n  brokers: ['localhost:9092']\n});\n\nconst consumer = kafka.consumer({ groupId: 'order-processing-group' });\n\nconst run = async () =&gt; {\n  await consumer.connect();\n  await consumer.subscribe({ topic: 'user-orders', fromBeginning: true });\n\n  await consumer.run({\n    eachMessage: async ({ topic, partition, message }) =&gt; {\n      const order = JSON.parse(message.value.toString());\n      console.log(`[Partition ${partition}] Processing Order ID: ${order.id}`);\n    },\n  });\n};\n\nrun().catch(console.error);<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Build scalable event producers and consumer groups with Node.js, KafkaJS, and schema registry for asynchronous processing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cl_workflow_state":"","_cl_content_brief":"","_cl_target_topic":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backend-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corpolearn.com\/software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corpolearn.com\/software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corpolearn.com\/software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corpolearn.com\/software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corpolearn.com\/software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/corpolearn.com\/software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corpolearn.com\/software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corpolearn.com\/software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corpolearn.com\/software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}