Kafka Streams 2.5.0 - Even Higher Availability & Interactive Queries

What this post added

Introduces KIP-535 to allow Kafka Streams state stores to serve stale reads from standby partitions during rebalances or VM failures, improving availability. Details KIP-562 for querying specific partitions and optimizing lookups by avoiding iteration over all stores on an instance. Fixes KAFKA-9169 to prevent unnecessary restoration of standby tasks, reducing resource consumption and potential errors.