First pass at producer

producer/Model/DataModel.cs

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+namespace Model
+{
+    public class DataModel 
+    {
+        public DataModel(string id)
+        {
+            this.id = id;
+        }
+
+        public string id { get; set; }
+
+        public string? name { get; set; }
+
+        public string? description { get; set; }
+
+        public string? notes { get; set; }
+    }
+}

producer/Producer.cs

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+using System;
+using System.Threading.Tasks;
+using Confluent.Kafka;
+using Model;
+
+class Producer
+{
+    public static async Task Main (string[] args)
+    {
+        var config = new ProducerConfig { BootstrapServers = "localhost:9092" };
+
+        using (var producerBuilder = new ProducerBuilder<string, DataModel>(config).Build())
+        {
+            try
+            {
+                var msg = new Message<string, DataModel>
+                {
+                    Key = System.Guid.NewGuid().ToString(),
+                    Value = new DataModel(System.Guid.NewGuid().ToString())
+                    {
+                        name = "Name",
+                        description = "Description",
+                        notes = "This is a test object"
+                    }
+                };
+
+                var dr = await producerBuilder.ProduceAsync("test-topic", msg);
+                Console.WriteLine($"Delivered '{dr.Value}' to '{dr.TopicPartitionOffset}'");
+            }
+            catch (ProduceException<string, DataModel> e)
+            {
+                Console.WriteLine($"Delivery failed: {e.Error.Reason}");
+            }
+        }
+        
+    }
+}

producer/producer.csproj

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+<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
+
+  <PropertyGroup>
+    <OutputType>Exe</OutputType>
+    <TargetFramework>net8.0</TargetFramework>
+    <ImplicitUsings>enable</ImplicitUsings>
+    <Nullable>enable</Nullable>
+  </PropertyGroup>
+
+  <ItemGroup>
+    <PackageReference Include="Confluent.Kafka" Version="2.4.0" />
+  </ItemGroup>
+
+</Project>