What's best practice to connect appian to kafka as a producer or consumer

Hello

We have kafka in place to stream data thru the company. Therefore we want to "subscribe" to events and start appian processes (as a listener).

After or during the process we would also like to publish data to kafka.

Does' anyone have some experience with this or what is possible and what not?

For sure we can program an own plugin as a listener, but is there anything more "out of the box"?

Thanks and kind regards, Michael