Creating the project

Now, we have a good idea about how we can use programming in Kotlin language. In this section, we will create the basic structure for our new project in which the main feature is consuming the Twitter stream. Let's do that.

Project use case

Before we start to code, we need to track the application requirements. The application is message-driven, we will use a broker to provide the messaging infrastructure. We choose the RabbitMQ broker because it provides reliability, high availability, and clustering options. Also, the RabbitMQ is a popular choice for the modern message-driven applications.

The software is powered by the Pivotal company, the same company which maintains Spring Framework. There is a huge community which supports the project. 

We will have three projects. These three projects will collect the Twitter stream and send it to a recipient to show Tweets in a formatted way to the end user.

The first one, which will be created in this chapter, will be responsible...