no need for a dot

This module has native bindings, better use cassandra-uuid module. The less native bindings we use the better.

I don't see a point in creating a promise here. You could do this sync and then start promise chain with createKafkaConsumer.

Yeah, I only did this so I could validate last-event-id as soon as possible. I wanted to do this before I created the KafkaConsumer, as creating KafkaConsumer has overhead and side affects, and I'd rather fail early if we know that we will.

I agree that we don't need a Promise for this, but I wanted to take advantage of the .catch error handing in connect() above. If _init doesn't return a Promise or throw from in a Promise, the .catch won't work (will it?).

I see that express-request-id uses node-uuid. Can I use that?

Or, cassandra-uuid is fine, it just sounds so 'cassandra' specific (even though I can see it isn't). You'd recommend cassandra-uuid over node-uuid? If so I'll use it.

@Ottomata cassandra-uuid is called like that because the implementation was copy-pasted from cassandra driver. We use it everywhere, but you can use either, just not the one with native bindings.

Oh, sorry, disregard, I didn't notice it's not called from within a promise.