Simplify Kafka authentication with Node.js

Apache Kafka is a publish-subscribe messaging system that is commonly used to build loosely coupled applications. These types of applications are often referred to as reactive applications. Our team maintains a reactive example that shows the use of Kafka in a simple application. If you've looked at these types of applications, you know that although the components are decoupled, they need access to a shared Kafka instance. Access to this shared instance must be protected. This means that each c...