Last Updated: November 21, 2025
Focus Areas
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Choose partition keys that suit your stateful operations
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Use idempotent producers and changelog topics for state stores
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Commands & Queries
kafka-topics --create --topic orders --partitions 12
Create topic
kafka-console-consumer --topic orders --from-beginning
Inspect events
kafka-streams-application-reset --application-id my-app --input-topics orders
Reset offsets
Summary
Tune partitions, monitor lag, and guard processors with changelog state.
💡 Pro Tip:
Align partition keys with workload needs and monitor consumer lag.