y, props);</code></pre>
      <p>At this point, internal structures are initialized, but the processing is not started yet.
        You have to explicitly start the Kafka Streams thread by calling the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">KafkaStreams#start()</span></code> method:</p>
        <pre class="line-numbers"><code class="language-java">// Start the Kafka Streams threads
streams.start();</code></pre>
      <p>If there are other instances of this stream processing application running else