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KIP Tracking

To control the scope of this long-term project, we chose to defer much of the details to later KIPs. Here's a roundup of the related work:

• KIP-805: Add range and scan query support in IQ v2
• KIP-806: Add session and window query support in IQv2

Motivation

Kafka Streams supports an interesting and innovative API for "peeking" into the internal state of running stateful stream processors from outside of the application, called Interactive Query (IQ). This functionality has proven invaluable to users over the years for everything from debugging running applications to serving low latency queries straight from the Streams runtime.

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