Event-driven architectures (EDA) are essential for building scalable and resilient applications, with Kafka often being a key component as a high-throughput event streaming platform.
Apache Camel, an open-source integration framework with over 300 components, excels at integrating Kafka into complex workflows by providing sophisticated routing, transformation, and mediation logic.
Key features of using Apache Camel with Kafka include declarative routing, message transformation, mediation functions like filtering and aggregation, and seamless connectivity with various systems.
Apache Camel allows for building complex integration flows, error handling, retry mechanisms, direct database integration, and can be executed in multiple environments such as Spring Boot, Quarkus, or standalone Java applications.