Yes it's pretty basic. Last I looked it didn't have interbroker SASL, no TLS, can't expand node storage, and the API didn't have configurable broker parameters

Yes it's pretty basic. Last I looked it didn't have interbroker SASL, no TLS, can't expand node storage, and the API didn't have configurable broker parameters ...? Also Kafka and Zookeeper are just about the last things I'd want sealed away in a black box.