Introduction to Kafka Streams
Explore Kafka Streams as a Java library to develop scalable and fault-tolerant real-time streaming applications. Understand its APIs, how it manages state, scales horizontally, and handles failures automatically within the Kafka ecosystem.
What is Kafka Streams?
Kafka Streams is a Java library for building real-time, scalable, and fault-tolerant streaming applications that process data in motion. It allows developers to build complex stream processing applications using simple and concise Java code, leveraging the power of Kafka’s distributed architecture.
Some of its key benefits include the following:
It’s only a library: Kafka Streams is a Java library, not a platform. We can treat it as any other Java dependency and include it in new and/or existing applications. Another useful outcome of Kafka Streams only being a library is that it makes it easy to deploy and scale Kafka Streams applications. We can continue to use our ...