A small set of examples that show how you can use Kafka on Heroku with Python, from your own personal dev environment.
Examples
standard_consumer.py and standard_producer.py both use the confluent-kafka-python library.
asyncio_kafka_consumer.py is a consumer built on the Python 3.5+ Asyncio library.
asyncio_websockets_kafka_consumer.py is built on Tornado / Asyncio / aiokafka,
and shows an example of how to do pubsub with Kafka without blocking, and how to connect it to Tornado which
handles websocket connections.
How to Use
I am running this on a Basic-0 Heroku plan. You need to make sure HEROKU_STAGING_APP_NAME is pointing to the application which contains the Kafka plugin.
If you wish to use it off of Heroku, you can play with the kafka_settings files to make changes to the connection settings.