We’re building a multi-protocol, event-native edge/service proxy called Zilla. Zilla can abstract Kafka topics for web apps, IoT clients and microservices through user-defined REST, Server-Sent Events (SSE), MQTT, or gRPC APIs.

Zilla has no external dependencies and does not rely on the Kafka Consumer/Producer API or Kafka Connect. Instead, it natively supports the Kafka wire protocol and uses advanced protocol mediation to establish stateless API entry points into Kafka. Zilla also addresses security enforcement, observability and connection offloading on the data path.

You can try Zilla out by running the Quickstart linked in the ReadME. The Quickstart uses a Postman Workspace with pre-defined API endpoints and a Docker Compose stack running pre-configured Zilla and Kafka instances to make things as easy as possible.

It would be great to get your feedback!