The Kafka Operations Platform - We unify your streaming through a proxy, help developers move faster on Kafka, and keep governance simple and reliable.
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Where do your Kafka operations actually stand?
Find out where you're losing time, control, and budget.
Get your score + breakdown 👇
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Kafka costs. The biggest concern we heard from platform owners at Current. Especially on managed services where spend can increase before anyone notices. Christoph breaks it down: the real fix is federated governance. When teams follow best practices by design costs stay predictable. We put together a field guide on all the places where spend will increase and nobody exactly knows why. → conduktor.io/resources/ebook…
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🚀 What’s new in Conduktor – May Release
• Understand Kafka costs (Chargeback v1.0)
• Reuse data statelessly (Topic Views)
• Support complex clients (Multi-listener Gateway)
• Expand federated ownership safely
📹 Watch the 2-min walkthrough ↓
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You can find the full release notes here: conduktor.io/product-release…
Kafka cost data is hard to get, so a lot of teams assume rising spend is just the cost of running at scale.
From what we see, that’s rarely the full picture. In many cases, 25 to 40% of Kafka infrastructure spend is recoverable.
It’s not one big fix, but a combination of approaches.
#kafka #kafkacosts
We broke down the three approaches to Kafka cost optimization, along with the trade-offs in time, coordination, and savings:
conduktor.io/blog/a-better-c…
Are you heading to Current London this year? Conduktor is co-hosting a happy hour the evening before the Summit with Aiven, OSO, Funding Circle UK and HelloFresh and we'd like for you join us!
It’s a relaxed way to connect with others working in Kafka and event streaming before things kick off, with a mix of short talks and plenty of time to catch up over drinks.
Event details:
Date: Monday, 18 May
Time: 6:00 – 9:00 PM (GMT+1)
Register Your Spot here 👉 luma.com/lfn5s1fn
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Kafka replication is not disaster recovery.
The hard part is failover, testing, and actually restoring service.
This guide breaks it down:
conduktor.io/resources/ebook…
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Secure, scalable streaming is becoming foundational to enterprise AI. @cloudera and @getconduktor are working together to simplify Kafka, strengthen governance, and deliver trusted real-time data.
More on how this comes together ⬇️
Running Kafka on AWS MSK gets complex fast.
It’s not just brokers. Teams run into challenges with connectivity, authentication, and managing multiple environments.
We’re covering how to simplify this in a live, hands-on workshop with AWS.
🗓 April 28 • 2:00 PM ET
Link in comments.
#kafka #aws #awsmsk #liveworkshop
Most Kafka teams assume configs like `acks=all` or `min.insync.replicas` have them covered.
In practice, it’s not always that simple.
As shown below, some records can exist in a partition and still be invisible to consumers, depending on transactions and isolation level.
Kafka doesn’t always behave the way you expect.
Full breakdown of 11 production surprises in comments.
#kafka #kafkaconfig #kafkapartitions
Have you heard of organizations running 300+ Kafka clusters?
As Chuck shares in this clip, it can happen as Kafka infrastructure scales across teams and environments. What starts as a solid foundation with AWS MSK grows into new questions around connectivity, access, and operating Kafka consistently.
If you’re at that stage, we go deeper in the full webinar:
conduktor.io/events/webinars…
#kafka #AWS #MSK
We taught an AI agent to operate a Kafka platform.
Not generate code.
Actually set up governance, create resources, and onboard developers.
One conversation. 13 resources. Zero YAML.
The developer didn’t learn the platform.
The platform guided the developer.
That’s the shift.
Full walkthrough + terminal recordings 👉 conduktor.io/blog/set-up-a-k…
#kafka #platformengineers #devs #claude
For platform engineers, the agent:
→ Spun up Kafka + Conduktor
→ Created policies, naming conventions, ownership boundaries
→ Set up cross-team permissions
No manual setup. No config drift. Governance built in.
Monitoring tells you what broke.
Chaos testing tells you what will break next.
In Kafka systems, controlled failure exposes things dashboards miss:
• Hidden dependencies
• Failover timing issues
• Broken recovery workflows
• Incident response gaps
Part 2 of the series:
conduktor.io/blog/what-kafka…
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