Why should you name your state stores? Because otherwise, you'll lose data.

But first, a bit of context.

Kafka Streams

Kafka Streams is a client library for building applications and microservices where the input and output data are stored in Kafka clusters. It combines the simplicity of writing and deploying standard Java and Scala applications on the client side with the benefits of Kafka's server-side cluster technology.

Unlike other stream processing frameworks, Kafka Streams is not a separate processing cluster but a library that runs within your application. This means you don't need to set up and manage a separate cluster - your application becomes the stream processing engine.