Errors publishing and subscribing

[sparques]

Using both kafkacat and Sarama, I get errors both trying to subscribe to a topic and trying to publish.

(Topic was created)

mhiles@ln-mhiles > echo test | kafkacat -P -b localhost:9092 -c 1 -t auto-alert-raw
%3|1545247547.398|PROTOERR|rdkafka#producer-1| [thrd:main]: localhost:9092/bootstrap: Protocol parse failure at 31/77 (rd_kafka_parse_Metadata:299) (incorrect broker.version.fallback?)
%3|1545247547.398|PROTOERR|rdkafka#producer-1| [thrd:main]: localhost:9092/bootstrap: 65536 topics: tmpabuf memory shortage
%3|1545247548.287|PROTOERR|rdkafka#producer-1| [thrd:main]: localhost:9092/bootstrap: Protocol parse failure at 31/77 (rd_kafka_parse_Metadata:299) (incorrect broker.version.fallback?)

More or less the same story for consuming with kafkacat.

With sarama trying to publish I get this error:

kafka: insufficient data to decode packet, more bytes expected

Does jocko support compression? We're using

config.Producer.Compression = sarama.CompressionSnappy

Although I just tried disabling it and still see the same error message.

Trying to subscribe to a topic, I get this error:

kafka server: Unexpected (unknown?) server error.

We use kafka for prod and I was really hoping I could get jocko working for dev/testing purposes.