A workshop on building predictive machine learning with Flink will be held on December 18, and registration is now open. The Apache Kafka-based architecture naturally decouples systems, allowing the best tool for the job to be used. A JavaScript client called KafkaJS has been developed, which provides a lightweight approach suitable for edge deployments or serverless functions. The project began as an independent initiative and has gained traction with 100,000 downloads per week and a vibrant community. It is also used by other frameworks such as NestJS and n8n. A tutorial on building a Slack bot that notifies users of new package releases published to the Node Package Registry will be provided. The application utilizes npm-hook-receiver for receiving webhook requests and publishing messages to Kafka. The consumer's job is to consume messages from the topic and post notifications to Slack. The application can be run locally or in Confluent Cloud, with support available through GitHub sponsors.