title: Akka Stream Kafka vs Kafka Streams
body: <p>I am currently working with <a href="http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka-stream-kafka/current/home.html" rel="noreferrer">Akka Stream Kafka</a> to interact with kafka and I was wonderings what were the differences with <a href="https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/streams/" rel="noreferrer">Kafka Streams</a>.</p>
  
  <p>I know that the Akka based approach implements the reactive specifications and handles back-pressure, functionality that kafka streams seems to be lacking.</p>
  
  <p>What would be the advantage of using kafka streams over akka streams kafka? </p>