I've seen a decent amount of complaining about the difficulty of supporting a kafka infrastructure. I'd be interested in thoughts from people who have used Heron as to how it is running it in production.
We run Kafka Mesos https://github.com/mesos/kafka allows for as a service implementation for broker clusters for users and apps.
Vagrant for running example https://github.com/elodina/heron/blob/v2/contrib/kafka9/vagr...