title: Which Language to use for Kafka Consumer
body: <p>I am trying to set up a Kafka system. Since most of the existing code in my project is already in PHP, I will most probably be writing the producers in PHP itself. But I am comparatively very less constrained when it comes to choosing a language to write the consumer. Now, that there are so many <a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Clients" rel="noreferrer">clients</a> which can be used I am in a fix. </p>
  
  <p>In other to order to choose the right tech here, what are the various factors that should be kept in mind? </p>
  
  <p>Would especially like to apply this knowledge to choose between java client vs node client(multithreaded model vs async model)</p>
  
  <p>Any help will be highly appreciated.</p>