First Steps with Kafka Scripts

Kafka Streams applications are simply JVM applications that use the Kafka Streams application as a dependency. Most of the great features that come with Kafka Streams, such as fault tolerance, workload balancing, and parallelism, are actually provided by Kafka.

This is why, before we dive into the Streams part of Kafka Streams, we’ll pay a visit to the Kafka part. Just as web developers have tools (such as Postman and the browser’s dev tools) that aid ...