> don't wrap all calls to a standard lib Im not saying to expose the same primitives - what would be the point in that? I am saying that EVERY lib you use will

> don't wrap all calls to a standard lib Im not saying to expose the same primitives - what would be the point in that? I am saying that EVERY lib you use will be using the standard lib or some abstraction of it to perform its own utility. > It's one thing to have an abstraction for kafka in your code, it's another to wrap the client in a smart client, and much worse a smart service. That abstraction is exactly what i am talking about. Why write 50 lines of boilerplate multiple times throughout your code when you can wrap that up in a single function call and expose THAT as your client. You know thats exactly what you will end up doing on any non-trivial project. Or you could use a lib that already does that - such as the "official" kafka streams lib.