# Why does serverless come with a kafka library? It's causing slow npm install

**URL:** <https://forum.serverless.com/t/why-does-serverless-come-with-a-kafka-library-its-causing-slow-npm-install/14392>\
**Category:** Serverless Framework\
**Created:** [March 16, 2021, 7:46am UTC](https://forum.serverless.com/t/why-does-serverless-come-with-a-kafka-library-its-causing-slow-npm-install/14392 "2021-03-16T07:46:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![reecefenwick](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.serverless.com/reecefenwick/32/1318_2.png) [@reecefenwick](https://forum.serverless.com/u/reecefenwick)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2021, 7:46am UTC](https://forum.serverless.com/t/why-does-serverless-come-with-a-kafka-library-its-causing-slow-npm-install/14392/1 "2021-03-16T07:46:28Z")

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I’m using the latest version of serverless. When running an npm install in a corporate environment it takes a long time because it’s trying to download who knows what for the “snappy” library.

Digging deeper, “snappy” appears to be a dependency of “node-kafka”

I’m completely puzzled as to why the serverless framework is bringing in a kafka library… why is this?

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**Author:** ![zryonix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/9d8465/32.png) [@zryonix](https://forum.serverless.com/u/zryonix)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2021, 9:28am UTC](https://forum.serverless.com/t/why-does-serverless-come-with-a-kafka-library-its-causing-slow-npm-install/14392/2 "2021-03-19T09:28:21Z")

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I looked up the word kafka in the github repository of serverless and came across a few files and this documentation page: [https://github.com/serverless/serverless/blob/4ba4b81e746fc7f59457d2f9ca74b90371979643/docs/providers/aws/events/msk.md](https://github.com/serverless/serverless/blob/4ba4b81e746fc7f59457d2f9ca74b90371979643/docs/providers/aws/events/msk.md)

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**Author:** ![pgrzesik](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.serverless.com/pgrzesik/32/5054_2.png) [@pgrzesik](https://forum.serverless.com/u/pgrzesik)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2021, 10:22am UTC](https://forum.serverless.com/t/why-does-serverless-come-with-a-kafka-library-its-causing-slow-npm-install/14392/3 "2021-03-31T10:22:29Z")

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Thanks for bringing this to our attention - it’s being brought by one of the indirect dependencies.