Describe the bug
_get_conn refreshes closed connections but _send doesn't use _get_conn so it will try to send data over a connections that got closed e.g. due to being idle for too long.
This results in
Error sending OffsetCommitRequest_v2 to node 11 [KafkaConnectionError: Connection at ... closed] -- marking coordinator dead
for our use case.
Expected behaviour
_send should refresh closed connections
Environment