Spring Boot | Kafka Connect

Enhancing a MySQL-KafkaConnect-Elasticsearch Setup with Spring Boot Applications

Implementing MovieAPI and MovieSearch to interact with the streaming of changes from MySQL to Elasticsearch using Kafka Connect

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In this article, we will implement two Spring Boot applications: Movie API and Movie Search. Our first application connects to MySQL and exposes an API that enables us to manage movies — create, retrieve, update, and delete (CRUD). The second app connects to Elasticsearch, delivering a user-friendly interface (UI) for searching movies.

These two applications form integral parts of our MySQL-Kafka Connect-Elasticsearch setup, which we’ve explained in detail in the article below:

Streaming MySQL changes to Elasticsearch using Kafka Connect

To get started, ensure that you have your MySQL-Kafka Connect-Elasticsearch setup up and running.

This is the project overview, now including Movie API and Movie Search applications: