gRPC with Kafka: has anyone tried?

[Bill Li]

Hi,

I am curious about what is the best approach to combine gRPC and Kafka. My goal is to be able to submit a gRPC request from the client side to the server side and get response stream back with messages consumed from Kafka topic. The request channel stays open as long as there are more messages to consume from Kafka topic.

It would be great if anyone who has tried this before could share some insights. Which of the Kafka components would be best suited for implementing the above scenario? (Kafka Consumer, Kafka Connect, Kafka Stream) Thanks in advance!