The Event-Driven Blueprint: How I Scaled a Spring Boot System to 10 Million Kafka Messages/Day

Author(s): FutureLens Originally published on Towards AI. The Event-Driven Blueprint: How I Scaled a Spring Boot System to 10 Million Kafka Messages/Day Modern applications rarely fail because of lack of features; they fail when they can’t keep up with scale. As systems grow, tightly coupled architectures start to crack under pressure, leading to slow processing, poor resilience, and operational headaches. That’s exactly the problem I ran into while scaling a Spring Boot service that needed to p