# Generates traaffic to be put into the topic from kafka import KafkaProducer import time # make a topic topic_name = "keys-topic" # same as the one made via script # producer instance producer = KafkaProducer( bootstrap_servers='localhost:9092') # advertised listener try: i = 0 users = ['Alice', 'Bob', 'Charlie'] while True: for user in users: message = f"Message {i} from {user}" # add the user bytes as key meta = producer.send(topic_name, key=user.encode('utf-8'), value=message.encode( # wait for ack, synchronous so NEVER use in prod 'utf-8')).get() print( f"Sent: {message} with key: {user} to partition: {meta.partition}") i += 1 time.sleep(1) # 1 message per second except KeyboardInterrupt: print("Stopping producer...") finally: producer.close()