Implement Kafka Streams windowed aggregations with grace period configuration

domain: kafka.apache.org · 6 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps

  1. Group a KStream by key using groupByKey or groupBy with appropriate serdes.
  2. Define a window using TimeWindows.ofSizeWithNoGrace(Duration) or, for late-arrival tolerance, TimeWindows.ofSizeAndGrace(windowSize, gracePeriod).
  3. Apply an aggregate using windowedBy(windows).aggregate(initializer, aggregator, Materialized.as(...)).
  4. The grace period controls how long Kafka Streams accepts late records into already-emitted windows; records arriving after the grace period are dropped.
  5. Configure suppress(Suppressed.untilWindowCloses(unbounded())) if you want to emit only the final result after the window and grace period both close.
  6. Verify late record handling by producing out-of-order records to the input topic and inspecting whether they are included in the window aggregate.

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