I just saw: <https://spring.io/blog/2025/05/20/rea...

# server

[Oğuzhan Soykan]

I just saw: https://spring.io/blog/2025/05/20/reactor-kafka-discontinued
I have apps that use reactor-kafka with Ktor, do you folks have any alternative for infinite-processing of events?
Kotlin-kafka exists but haven’t used it in production, yet.

[Pedro Marques]

You can continue to use spring Kafka blocking library and convert messages to Mono and Flux. Since kafka’s Java client is intrinsically blocking at its core

[Oğuzhan Soykan]

Makes sense. Do you still think about rebalancing, consumer drop, error handling, or you let spring-kafka handle those things and focus on flux/flow creation?

[Pedro Marques]

Yes, you should deliberately let Spring Kafka handle rebalancing, consumer drop, retries, commits, etc., and you focus on building the Flux / processing flow.