It turns out that it is possible to compile https://twitter.com/hashtag/Kafka?src=hashtag_click Producer and Consumer with https://twitter.com/hashtag/GraalVM?src=hashtag_click https://twitter.com/hashtag/native?src=hashtag_click-image and the demo is all in https://twitter.com/hashtag/Clojure?src=hashtag_click. Take a look: https://github.com/dainiusjocas/clojure-kafka-graalvm-native-image