How to Process Notifications With Kafka, MinIO, And Python

Send bucket notifications through Kafka and consume the records in Python

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Event-driven architecture has been a popular approach that enables decoupled applications to communicate with each other.

To illustrate how this architecture works, we’ll set up Minio to send topic notifications through Kafka. Then we’ll create a simple Kafka listener in Python to consume the event records.

Let’s get started!

Prepare The MinIO-Kafka Environment

First, let’s prepare our local development infrastructure. The easiest way to get started is by running a docker-compose.yml file:

We create containers for minio, kafka, and zookeeper.

• The MinIO service acts as a producer and sends notification data to Kafka.
• Kafka is a streaming system that will consume MinIO event data and handle the records accordingly.
• Zookeeper is used to…