Introduction to Kafka Streams

Since its introduction two and a half years ago the Kafka Streams API has become a viable alternative to stream processing frameworks such as Apache Spark Streaming or Apache Flink.
In this talk we aim to give a short introduction to programming with Kafka Streams.

Agenda:

• Review of Kafka basics (brokers, topics, partitions, etc)
• Introduction to Kafka streams
• Comparison to Spark Streaming