Kafka Stock Price Simulator

This project simulates real-time stock prices using Kafka.

Features

• Kafka Producer generates random stock prices every second.
• Kafka Consumer calculates 5-point moving averages.
• Optional: Store results in MongoDB or visualize with a dashboard.

Tech Stack

• Kafka (Broker + Zookeeper)
• Node.js + kafkajs
• MongoDB (optional)
• React (optional visualization)

Setup

1. Start Kafka:

bin/zookeeper-server-start.sh config/zookeeper.properties
bin/kafka-server-start.sh config/server.properties
bin/kafka-topics.sh --create --topic stock-prices --bootstrap-server localhost:9092