Book 4 · Lesson 4.4
Kafka producer from Axum
- Configure rdkafka FutureProducer
- Publish to raw-dev-events with key and payload
- Handle broker-down gracefully in dev
Prerequisites: 4.3 · 2.3
Ingestion wraps the producer in Option — if Kafka is down, webhooks still return accepted: true with kafka_status: unavailable.
IngestionProducerPanel — simulate send vs broker failure.
Producer config
ClientConfig::new()
.set("bootstrap.servers", &kafka_brokers)
.set("message.timeout.ms", "5000")
.create::<FutureProducer>()
Default topic: KAFKA_TOPIC=raw-dev-events.
Teach-back prompt
Why use event_id as the Kafka message key?
Publish raw-dev-events
Lab complete — nice work.