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 About the *Modern C++ Kafka API*
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 The [modern-cpp-kafka API](http://morganstanley.github.io/modern-cpp-kafka/doxygen/annotated.html) is a layer of ***C++*** wrapper based on [librdkafka](https://github.com/confluentinc/librdkafka) (the ***C*** part only), with high quality, but more friendly to users.