It depends on what your requirements are. Through the years, I found it easier to write reliable code by just skipping the Clojure wrapper libraries (e.g. using

It depends on what your requirements are. Through the years, I found it easier to write reliable code by just skipping the Clojure wrapper libraries (e.g. using Kafka directly rather than a wrapper): it's easier to "escape" into functionality the wrapper doesn't offer, and it's typically more performant as well.