Step 4: Consuming Data
Choose the programming language or framework for your consumer
For the producer application you have chosen a certain method. Use the links below to continue the Getting Started for the preferred method.
| Simple Java Consumer Application using the latest version of the Java Client | Simple .NET Consumer Application using the latest version of the .NET Client | Simple Python Consumer Application using the latest version of the Python Client | Simple REST Consumer using any tool that can perform REST calls | 
Choose the Authentication Method
Consuming using SASL
In order to create a consumer application that use SASL, you need to use Kafka Client.
| SASL support has not been implemented for Axual Client, so if you want to implement your example based on SASL, please use Kafka Client. | 
Consuming using Mutual TLS
In order to create a consumer application that use mTLS, you can choose from following clients:
| Confuse which client to use? Please refer When to choose which client section. |