Build a Streaming Application Using Apache Kafka and .NET

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This post details the architecture and implementation of a streaming application using Apache Kafka and the .NET client library. It specifically highlights the integration of the Task Parallel Library (TPL), particularly its Dataflow components (BufferBlock and TransformBlock), to manage concurrency and parallelism for high-throughput event processing. The post explains how to construct a pipeline with source, transform, and target blocks, demonstrating how to wrap Kafka consumers and producers within these blocks and manage backpressure and ordered processing with parallelism.