Kafka Streams thread number

Question

I am new to Kafka Streams, I am currently confused with the maximum parallelism of Kafka Streams application. I went through following link and did not get the answer what I

Answer 1

Dmitry's answer does not seems to be completely correct.

Then, each of the 15 input partitions will map to a single a Kafka Streams "task"

Not in general. It depends on the "structure" of your topology. It could also be only 10 tasks.

Otherwise, excellent answer from Dmitry!