Comment by dpkp

I enjoyed your blog post, but I don't think this is a fair characterization: kafka-python is not "mostly 0.9+ focused..." kafka-python is the only driver that is both forward and backwards compatible w/ kafka 0.8 through 0.10. As I'm sure you remember, kafka-python was the original 0.8 driver, written to support the 0.8 protocol b/c Samsa (pykafka's previous incarnation) was only supporting 0.7 and did not have any plans to upgrade.