Confluent's Kafka REST Proxy vs Kafka Client
I am curious about the advantages and disadvantages of Confluent's Kafka REST Proxy and the producer/consumer implemented with the kafka official client library. i know that Confluent's Kafka REST Proxy is used for administrative tasks and for languages not supported by the kafka client. So, what are the advantages of the kafka client? One advantage of a native client would be raw performance via direct TCP to the brokers rather than round trip HTTP serialization + JVM serialization taking place within the REST Proxy. A disadvantage with the above could be maintaining security policies for