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+# Your First Kafka Tutorial
+
+Let's build a simple application that uses a `KafkaConsumer` to read records from Kafka.
+
+## Create a Consumer
+
+There are required properties needed to create a Kafka Consumer. At a minimum, the `Consumer` needs to know:
+* How to find the Kafka broker(s).
+* How to deserialize the key and value of events.
+* A group ID value for consumer group coordination.
+
+```java annotate
+  final String bootstrapServers = "localhost:9092";
+  final String consumerGroupId = "my-group-id";
+  final Properties consumerAppProps = new Properties() {{
+        put(ConsumerConfig.BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS_CONFIG, bootstrapServers);
+        put(ConsumerConfig.KEY_DESERIALIZER_CLASS_CONFIG, StringDeserializer.class);
+        put(ConsumerConfig.VALUE_DESERIALIZER_CLASS_CONFIG, StringDeserializer.class);
+        put(ConsumerConfig.GROUP_ID_CONFIG, consumerGroupId);
+      }};
+```
+
+For more about Kafka Consumer Configurations, please [refer to the documentation](https://docs.confluent.io/platform/current/clients/consumer.html#ak-consumer-configuration).
+
+## Consume Events
+
+To consume a stream of events, the `Consumer` needs to subscribe to a topic (or multiple topics), and poll said topic(s)
+to retrieve `ConsumerRecords`. In our example, we use an implementation of a `ConsumerRecordsHandler` to process the
+`ConsumerRecords` from a poll interval.
+
+```java annotate
+  public void runConsume(final List<String> topicNames, final ConsumerRecordsHandler<String, String> recordsHandler) {
+  try {
+    consumer.subscribe(topicNames);
+    while (keepConsuming) {
+      final ConsumerRecords<String, String> consumerRecords = consumer.poll(Duration.ofSeconds(1));
+      recordsHandler.process(consumerRecords);
+    }
+  } finally {
+    consumer.close();
+  }
+}
+```