Kafka Stream

Definitions

1. A continuous flow of event records in Kafka, usually represented by a topic or by a logical processing pipeline built from topics. In engineering discussions it can also refer to a stream-processing abstraction where events are transformed, aggregated, windowed, or joined as they arrive.

   In plain English: It is a steady sequence of events moving through Kafka that can be processed as they happen.

   Example: "That Kafka stream enriches click events with account metadata before pushing aggregates into the analytics topic."

Related Terms

• Avro
• Kafka Partition
• Kafka Consumer
• Kafka Producer
• Kafka Topic
• Producer
• Reactive Programming
• Transactional Outbox