Check out the docs at Apache Kafka web site: http://kafka.apache.org/documentation/streams/

Sub-pages:

• Using Kafka Streams:
  
  • Usage Patterns
  • Application Reset Tool

  • Join Semantics

  • Streams FAQs
  • Data (Re)Processing Scenarios
• Development:
  • KIP overview by release
  • Development Plan
  • Discussions
  • Data (Re)Processing Scenarios
  • Kafka Streams DSL Grammar
• Internals:
  
  • Data Management
  • Architecture
  • DSL Optimizer

Find more links about Kafka Streams at Kafka Ecosystem page.

Kafka Streams related KIPs:

Below is a list of KIPs that are not release yet. Go to Kafka Streams KIP Overview for KIPs by release (including discarded KIPs).

Under discussion

• KIP-406: GlobalStreamThread should honor custom reset policy
• KIP-424: Allow suppression of intermediate events based on wall clock time
• KIP-439: Cleanup built-in Store interfaces
• KIP-448: Add State Stores Unit Test Support to Kafka Streams Test Utils
• KIP-508: Make Suppression State Queriable
• KIP-513: Distinguish between Key and Value serdes in scala wrapper library for kafka streams
• KIP-540: Implement per key stream time tracking
• KIP-560: Auto infer external topic partitions in stream reset tool
• KIP-598: Augment TopologyDescription with store and source / sink serde information
• KIP-634: Complementary support for headers and record metadata in Kafka Streams DSL
• KIP-647: Add ability to handle late messages in streams-aggregation
• KIP-655: Windowed Distinct Operation for Kafka Streams API
• KIP-669: Preserve Source Partition in Kafka Streams from context
• KIP-674: Metric Reporter to Aggregate Metrics in Kafka Streams
• KIP-675: Convert KTable to a KStream using the previous value
• KIP-677: Migrating Topology methods to the Builder pattern
• KIP-718: Make KTable Join on Foreign key unopinionated
• KIP-747 Add support for basic aggregation APIs
• KIP-756: Move StreamsResetter tool outside of core
• KIP-759: Unneeded repartition canceling
• KIP-807: Refactor KafkaStreams exposed metadata hierarchy
• KIP-816: Topology changes without local state reset
• KIP-819: Merge multiple KStreams in one operation
• KIP-839: Provide builders for KafkaProducer/KafkaConsumer and KafkaStreams
• KIP-857: Streaming recursion in Kafka Streams
• KIP-869: Improve Streams State Restoration Visibility
• KIP-878: Internal Topic Autoscaling for Kafka Streams
• KIP-892: Transactional Semantics for StateStores

Adopted

• inactive, not (fully) implemented (feel free to pick up):
  • KIP-149: Enabling key access in ValueTransformer, ValueMapper, and ValueJoiner (partially implemented in v1.1)
  • KIP-258: Allow to Store Record Timestamps in RocksDB (partially implemented in v2.3)
  • KIP-300: Add Windowed KTable API in StreamsBuilder (accepted but postponed because current code base does not allow to implement it as proposed) 
  • KIP-328: Ability to suppress updates for KTables (partially implemented in v2.1)
  • KIP-399: Extend ProductionExceptionHandler to cover serialization exceptions
  • KIP-557: Add emit on change support for Kafka Streams (partially implemented in v2.6 reverted again in 2.8.0, 2.7.1, and 2.6.2 due to potential data loss)
• WIP (open PR / in review):
  • KIP-216: IQ should throw different exceptions for different errors

  • KIP-698: Add Explicit User Initialization of Broker-side State to Kafka Streams

  • KIP-770: Replace "buffered.records.per.partition" & "cache.max.bytes.buffering" with "{statestore.cache}/{input.buffer}.max.bytes" (partially implemented in 3.4)
  • KIP-796: Interactive Query v2 (split up into multiple sub KIPs)
  • KIP-813: Shareable State Stores
  • KIP-844: Transactional State Stores
  • KIP-862: Self-join optimization for stream-stream joins
  • KIP-889: Versioned State Stores
• future release Kafka 3.5 (merged):
  • KIP-884: Add config to configure KafkaClientSupplier in Kafka Streams
• next release Kafka 3.4 (merged):
  • KIP-865: Support --bootstrap-server in kafka-streams-application-reset
  • KIP-770: Replace "buffered.records.per.partition" & "cache.max.bytes.buffering" with "{statestore.cache}/{input.buffer}.max.bytes" (partially implemented)
  • KIP-837: Allow MultiCasting a Result Record.

Inactive (feel free to pick up and resume the discussion):

• KIP-95: Incremental Batch Processing for Kafka Streams
• KIP-159: Introducing Rich functions to Streams
• KIP-260: add primary join operation for Stream-Stream join (WIP) (draft)
• KIP-311: Async processing with dynamic scheduling in Kafka Streams
• KIP-314: KTable to GlobalKTable Bi-directional Join
• KIP-326: Schedulable KTable as Graph source
• KIP-335: Consider configurations for KafkaStreams
• KIP-362: Support dynamic gap session window
• KIP-408: Add Asynchronous Processing To Kafka Streams
• KIP-457: Add DISCONNECTED status to Kafka Streams
• KIP-459: Improve KafkaStreams#close
• KIP-463: Auto-configure non-default Serdes passed alongside the TopologyBuilder
• KIP-645: Replace Windows with a proper interface
• KIP-667: Remove deprecated methods from ReadOnlyWindowStore (no KIP needed)
• KIP-XXX: [Streams] Support multiple topic resolution in TopicNameExtractor (draft)