Why would you roll your own consumer thread when there is kafka streams?

I’m imagining streams being another namespace so that it would be optional. I could imagine streams being the only option though, if a similar know-nothing interface could be made. A data transformation from keywords to stream concepts would be a cool interface. Do you use streams? Do you have an idea for how that would work?

You could add your own reader that looks up properties instead of env vars.

oh! That's actually not hard to do. thanks!