Handling 1 Million Messages per Second with Kafka & Spring Boot

Mission: Real-Time Throughput at Scale Bob, our favorite builder, now works at a fast-growing fintech company. His task? Build a real-time transaction processor that can handle 1 million messages per second. This isn’t your typical “Hello World” microservice. This is the real deal — Kafka + Spring Boot + production-grade tuning. What You’ll Learn ✔ Kafka architecture that supports…

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Microservices vs Monolith in 2025: Why We Reverted

Bob’s Story: Spaghetti Code at the Pizza Shop In 2023, Bob opened a futuristic pizza chain.He was told microservices were the way to go.So he split everything into services: The first few months? Great.Fast deploys, cool architecture diagrams, CI/CD pipelines everywhere. Then… things got weird. “We’re engineers,” Bob said. “Not babysitters of YAML files and message…

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