We are pleased to announce the release of the first milestone of Reactor Kafka 1.0.0. What is Reactor Kafka? Reactor Kafka is a reactive API for Apache Kafka based on Project Reactor. Reactor Kafka API enables messages to be published to Kafka topics and consumed from Kafka topics using functional APIs with non-blocking back-pressure and very low overheads. This enables applications using Reactor to use Kafka as a message bus or streaming platform and integrate with other systems to provide an end-to-end reactive pipeline. The value proposition for Reactor Kafka is the efficient utilization of…