Kafka Streams

Kafka Streams is a powerful stream-processing library built on top of Apache Kafka. It allows developers to build scalable, fault-tolerant, and real-time stream processing applications using a high-level Domain-Specific Language (DSL) or a low-level Processor API. Kafka Streams enables you to process and analyze data directly within Kafka, eliminating the need for separate stream processing frameworks. The following are the key features of Kafka Streams:

• Native Kafka integration: Kafka Streams is tightly integrated with Kafka, allowing seamless reading from and writing to Kafka topics. It leverages Kafka’s features, such as partitioning and replication, for fault tolerance and scalability.
• High-level DSL: Kafka Streams provides a high-level DSL that simplifies the development of stream processing applications. The DSL includes operations such as map, filter, join, and aggregate, which can be combined to express complex processing logic declaratively...