Ensure that async producer works in windows. Fixes #46 #61
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As per the multiprocessing module's documentation, the objects
passed to the Process() class must be pickle-able in Windows.
So, the Async producer did not work in windows.
To fix this we have to ensure that code which uses multiprocessing
has to follow certain rules
This ticket fixes these issues. For KafkaClient and KafkaConnection
objects, we make copies of the object and reinit() them inside the
child processes.