In this blog, we’ll dive into Kafka, a distributed streaming platform, and learn how to create a Producer and Consumer in .NET 6 using ASP.NET Core. We’ll cover Kafka’s core concepts, provide detailed explanations for each code snippet, and build a functional application that sends and receives messages. What is Kafka? Kafka is a high-throughput, distributed messaging system designed to handle real-time data streams. It has three key components: Producer: Sends data (messages) to Kafka topics.