How to set up Kafka Streams topology without defining a Spring Bean?
in several examples of how to set up a topology for Kafka Streams in a SpringBoot based application (e.g. here), a method is defined which is annotated with @Bean. The method has a parameter of type StreamsBuilder (and maybe other parameters) which is the Streams API for defining the topology. Like this: @Bean KStream<Integer, String> … Read more