Why Kafka Streams: Extending Kafka’s Power

Apache Kafka has established itself as a reliable and scalable event streaming platform, catering to the needs of various real-time data processing scenarios.

However, it is perfectly useless to have a functional, performing and scalable event streaming platform if you cannot process, manipulate and analyze data in real time. This is where Kafka Streams comes into play, providing a higher-level abstraction to handle complex processing tasks.

In this article I will explore a few topics:

1. Why you need Kafka…