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A. Sophie Blee-Goldman commented on KAFKA-10847: ------------------------------------------------ Hey [~spena] – to answer your question at the end there, yes, a particularly long punctuation could definitely cause the thread to drop out of the consumer group and trigger a rebalance. But the default (and probably minimum of any serious application) max.poll.interval.ms is 5 minutes, so the punctuation would have to be pretty long to cause this. If the punctuations are getting into the range of multi-minutes and blocking all further work on that thread, then I would say that's a problem in its own right, regardless of the rebalancing. By the way, given the potential for performance regressions here I think it would be best if you could run some benchmarks on a basic POC with the above implementation. If it does seriously impact the performance then we can consider other designs, or possibly make this feature opt-in/opt-out which would then require a KIP > Avoid spurious left/outer join results in stream-stream join > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-10847 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-10847 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: streams > Reporter: Matthias J. Sax > Assignee: Sergio Peña > Priority: Major > > KafkaStreams follows an eager execution model, ie, it never buffers input > records but processes them right away. For left/outer stream-stream join, > this implies that left/outer join result might be emitted before the window > end (or window close) time is reached. Thus, a record what will be an > inner-join result, might produce a eager (and spurious) left/outer join > result. > We should change the implementation of the join, to not emit eager left/outer > join result, but instead delay the emission of such result after the window > grace period passed. -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)