The Event-Driven Blueprint: How I Scaled a Spring Boot System to 10 Million Kafka Messages/Day (opens in new tab)

Last Updated on April 29, 2026 by Editorial Team 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 ...