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Error Handling in Kafka Streams: Overview

Explore the three categories of errors in Kafka Streams—entry, processing, and exit—and understand how to manage them using specific exception handlers. This lesson helps you learn how to prevent application shutdowns by handling errors gracefully and integrating proper try/catch blocks within your Kafka Streams processors.

Mistakes are a part of life, and errors in software are no different. Our Kafka Streams application will encounter errors at some point, and we will have to deal with these errors somehow.

By default, a Kafka Streams application will shut down on any uncaught exception. This is sensible when we are developing the application but very bad for running production applications. We rarely want our entire ...