Event-Driven Microservices & AI Agents: Spring Boot, Kafka, Kotlin & MCP

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This meeting will feature two talks:

• Headline Talk: Building Event-Driven Microservices with Spring Boot, Apache Kafka and Kotlin, with Sandon Jacobs

Spring and Kafka already play nicely together, so you can keep using the Spring ecosystem you know while getting the benefits of event-driven architecture. In this session we’ll build a Kotlin-based service that produces and consumes Kafka events using Spring Kafka, connect it to a Kafka cluster (e.g. Confluent Cloud), and use structured data with Apache Avro and a schema registry. By the end, you’ll see how Kotlin fits as a first-class language in Spring and how to spin up event-driven services without extra ceremony.

• Lightning Talk: Building Model Context Protocols (MCPs) for AI Agents, with David Fekke:

This presentation will focus on creating Model Context Protocols (MCPs) for AI Agents. Anthropic recently introduced MCPs as a method to provide additional context to AI agents using large language models. I will also demonstrate how easily these services can be integrated using Java, [Node.js](http://node.js/) or just about any other language.