The Producer, Consumer, and Admin APIs are how client applications interact with Apache Kafka.
Apache Kafka ships with clients for Java, and through librdkafka there is support for many other languages including C/C++, .NET, Python, and Go. There is also a REST Proxy.
Our existing implementation uses a restful proxy and is being replaced by your confluent kafka client. The confluent client uses Open SSL and is unable to access the windows certificate store directly requiring exporting certificates to a .pem file. Our system administrators are wary about having certs outside of the windows certificate store. Does confluent have a version which supports the windows certificate store? Is there any way to do this?