Building an Enterprise-Grade Kafka Messaging System with the Outbox Pattern on Kubernetes Using Strimzi, Java, and MySQL
By Solomon Eseme. Updated Tue Jul 08 2025In enterprise microservices environments, ensuring reliable, ordered, and fault-tolerant event delivery from services to Kafka is a challenge, especially when you’re also managing data consistency in relational databases. The Outbox Pattern solves this by making message publication part of the local transaction with your database.
This guide is ideal for backend engineers, platform architects, and DevOps teams building event-driven systems on Kubernetes.This tutorial walks you through setting up a production-ready event-driven architecture using:
Java (Spring Boot): to build microservices and manage domain logic

MySQL: as the transactional relational database