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Filtering

Explore how to apply filtering in Kafka Streams using the filter and filterNot operators. Understand predicate logic to remove unwanted records and improve stream processing efficiency. Learn best practices for verification and implementing filters early in your data topology.

Now that we have our incoming Track objects properly deserialized, we’ll move on to fulfill the second requirement: tracks that have been listened to for less than 30 seconds should be disregarded.

To achieve that, we will use the filter operator. Using the filter operator on a stream creates a new stream that consists only of records satisfying a condition provided to the filter. Records that do not meet the condition are dropped and are not further processed.

The filter operator

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