Hi All, We have a Spring based web app. We are planning to build an 'Audit Tracking' feature and plan to use Kafka - as a sink for storing Audit messages (which will then be consumed and persisted to a common DB).
We are planning to build a simple, ‘pass-through’ REST service which will take a JSON and push it into the appropriate Kafka topic. This REST service will be called from various pages (from server side) in the web app (during Create, View, Edit actions) to store the Audit entries. My question is can we directly have Kafka Producers in the web app so that we post messages to Kafka Topic directly (instead of going through a Webservice)? Will adding a Kafka Producer in web app will make the app less stable (make pages less performant)? This is one of the reasons why we want to hide the Kafka producer complexity behind the webservice. Also we feel that this webservice can be a starting point for a generic “Auditing service” that can be used by other applications, in the enterprise, in the future. I think the ‘pass-through’ webservice is not required and it is OK to push messages directly from web app to Kafka (but unable to point to any examples of this being done or any benefits of doing so). What do you think? Thanks, Ragha
