diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 1a4bfbb..388bcf5 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ Warcprox runs on python 3.4.
 
 To install latest release run:
 
-
 ::
 
     # apt-get install libffi-dev libssl-dev python3-gdbm
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 844d8ca..147cb35 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ except:
 
 setuptools.setup(
         name='warcprox',
-        version='2.0b2.dev26',
+        version='2.0b2.dev27',
         description='WARC writing MITM HTTP/S proxy',
         url='https://github.com/internetarchive/warcprox',
         author='Noah Levitt',
diff --git a/warcprox/kafkafeed.py b/warcprox/kafkafeed.py
index 8b2dbf9..683e925 100644
--- a/warcprox/kafkafeed.py
+++ b/warcprox/kafkafeed.py
@@ -32,7 +32,9 @@ class CaptureFeed:
     def __init__(self, broker_list, topic=None):
         self.broker_list = broker_list
         self.topic = topic
-        self._producer = kafka.KafkaProducer(bootstrap_servers=broker_list)
+        # acks=0 to avoid ever blocking
+        self._producer = kafka.KafkaProducer(
+                bootstrap_servers=broker_list, acks=0)
 
     def notify(self, recorded_url, records):
         if records[0].type not in (b'revisit', b'response'):