Powering Microservices Using Apache Kafka on Node.js with KafkaJS at Klarna ft. Tommy Brunn

At Klarna, Lead Engineer Tommy Brunn is building a runtime platform for developers. But outside of his professional role, he is also one of the authors of the JavaScript client for Apache Kafka® called KafkaJS, which has grown from being a niche open source project to the most downloaded Kafka client for Node.js since 2018. Using Kafka in Node.js has previously meant relying on community-contributed bindings to librdkafka, which required you to spend more of your time debugging failed builds ...