Kafka Streams 101: A Developer’s Guide to Real-Time Application Logic (opens in new tab)

TL;DR Kafka Streams enables real-time stream processing inside applications using local state backed by Kafka logs. However, deploying and managing multiple Kafka Streams microservices at scale is complex, requiring custom CI/CD, state recovery, and observability tooling. Condense simplifies this by providing a fully managed, unified streaming platform inside your cloud (BYOC). It integrates Kafka Streams with built-in IDE, Git versioning, prebuilt domain logic, and native observability, elim...