Overview

Kafka binder ecosystem in Spring Cloud Stream provides a dedicated reactive binder based on the Reactor Kafka project. This reactive Kafka binder enables full end-to-end reactive capabilities such as backpressure, reactive streams etc. in applications based on Apache Kafka. When your Spring Cloud Stream Kafka application is written using reactive types (Flux, Mono etc.), it is recommended to use this reactive Kafka binder instead of the regular message channel based Kafka binder.