KIP-182 — Reduce Streams DSL overloads and allow easier use of custom storage engines

Accepted Kafka 1.0 Streams

KIP-182 reduces the KafkaStreams DSL API surface by replacing many overloaded per-parameter methods with a small set of parameter-object overloads using `Produced`, `Consumed`, `Serialized`, `Joined`, and `Materialized` config objects. The explosion of method overloads (e.g. 8 for `KStream.print()`) made the DSL hard to navigate in IDEs and made it difficult to add per-operator state-store options without adding yet more overloads.

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