Closes gh-16773

Closes gh-16772

Closes gh-16771

Closes gh-16770

Closes gh-16769

Closes gh-16768

Closes gh-16767

Closes gh-16766

Closes gh-16765

Closes gh-16764

Closes gh-16763

Closes gh-16762

Closes gh-16761

Closes gh-16760

Closes gh-16504

See gh-16759

Closes gh-16723

* gh-16728:
  Add dependency management for remaining non-example Kafka modules
  Add dependency management for kafka-streams-test-utils

Closes gh-16728

See gh-16728

See gh-16728

* pr/16731:
  Polish indentation

Closes gh-16731

Closes gh-16725

See gh-16723

* pr/16719:
  Polish "Add link to Heroku article"
  Add link to Heroku article

Closes gh-16719

See gh-16719

See gh-16714

* pr/16707:
  Polish "Document that JUnit 4 is the default"
  Document that JUnit 4 is the default

Closes gh-16707

See gh-16707

* pr/16699:
  Polish CompressionConnectorCustomizerTests

Closes gh-16699

Closes gh-16576

See gh-16688

* pr/16628:
  Exclude HikariCP specific dependency from Quartz

Closes gh-16628