Microservice architecture, Kafka messaging system, event-driven design, Spring Boot framework, cloud-native application, modern data pipeline, real-time analytics, distributed systems, containerized deployment, Kubernetes orchestration, monitoring dashboard, Grafana visualization, alerting system, scalable infrastructure, high-availability clustering, load balancer, RESTful API, JSON data serialization, asynchronous processing, fault-tolerant architecture, circuit breaker pattern, service discovery, configuration management, cloud-agnostic support, DevOps practices, CI/CD pipeline.