title: Difference between Kafka and load balancer (Ribbon)
body: <p>I am new to Kafka.  </p>
  
  <p>I have existing microservice with spring-boot, ribbon, eruka, and zuul. </p>
  
  <p>If I use Kafka as the messaging platform between each microservice call, does kafka provide load balancer for microservice and I can get rid of ribbon ?</p>
  
  <p>Please give me some suggestions.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks </p>