Akka Stream Kafka vs Kafka Streams

Question

I am currently working with Akka Stream Kafka to interact with kafka and I was wonderings what were the differences with Kafka Streams.

I know that the Akka based approa

Answer 1

The big advantage of Akka Stream over Kafka Streams would be the possibility to implement very complex processing graphs that can be cyclic with fan in/out and feedback loop. Kafka streams only allows acyclic graph if I am not wrong. It would be very complicated to implement cyclic processing graph on top of Kafka streams