Stephan Buys

@mrmonday yeah, would be happy to try - a little swamped at the moment, but will ping back as soon as I have bandwidth again.

Here as relatively decent articles, as far as I can see `af_packet` actually give a handle which should be compatible with `epoll` according to others (http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v2.6.36/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt), here is a relatively...

The `unix://` scheme seems to be well established, I'd recommend doing what you propose.

@xitep, tokio-rs + futures definitely the way to go, had a discussion with the developers and a tokio-rs based kafka client is something they are very interested in seeing.

@bluejekyll, definitely ping @carllerche about this - he's personally interested in a kafka tokio-powered client.

Having regular expression support would be a great win - lots of use-cases that it enables

A scheme to support this would be great.

Any plans for DB (say Postgres) based backend?