DUE TO ISSUES WITH RELEASES, IT IS SUGGESTED TO USE https://github.com/wbarnha/kafka-python-ng FOR THE TIME BEING Python client for the Apache Kafka distributed stream processing system. kafka-python is designed to function much like the official java client, with a sprinkling of pythonic interfaces (e.g., consumer iterators). kafka-python is best used with newer brokers (0.9+), but is backwards-c