Minor Description
Imagine that we have an entity for which we want to emit the difference between the current and the previous state. The simplest case would be that the entity was an integer number and you want to emit the subtraction between the current and previous values.
For example, for the input stream 4, 6, 3 the output 4 (4 - 0), 2 (6 - 4), -3 (3 - 6) is expected.
The way to achieve this with kafka streams would be through an aggregate.
The main problem, apart from needing more code, is that if the same event is received twice at the same time and the commit time is not 0, the difference is deleted and nothing is emitted.