I'm an open-source maintainer and fan of well-structured systems. The past few years I've grown both engineering teams and software systems within fintech and logistics.
One of the authors of KafkaJS here 👋 Thanks for the write-up, and I'm glad to hear that you had success introducing KafkaJS to your team.
While you are correct that KafkaJS isn't going anywhere anytime soon, that's not because of DigitalOcean's support. They have been providing some credits to run infrastructure, but they are not supporting the development itself. Currently there is no corporate sponsorship of KafkaJS, just the time that we and our community contributors put in - but as far as I know that's the same for all other Kafka clients except the official Java one (and maybe librdkafka).
One of the authors of KafkaJS here 👋 Thanks for the write-up, and I'm glad to hear that you had success introducing KafkaJS to your team.
While you are correct that KafkaJS isn't going anywhere anytime soon, that's not because of DigitalOcean's support. They have been providing some credits to run infrastructure, but they are not supporting the development itself. Currently there is no corporate sponsorship of KafkaJS, just the time that we and our community contributors put in - but as far as I know that's the same for all other Kafka clients except the official Java one (and maybe librdkafka).
Nice to hear from you @Tommy. I am impressed with the simplicity and documentation of KafkaJS. It did not let me down a single time in my POC.