Nicole Bouchard

Nicole Bouchard

Senior Product Manager

Nicole is a Senior Product Manager at Conduktor specializing in developer tools, infrastructure, and data platforms. Previously at Spotify.

Kafka Chaos Tests: What They Teach You That Monitoring Can't

Kafka Chaos Tests: What They Teach You That Monitoring Can't

Monitoring tells you what broke. Chaos testing tells you what will. Five Kafka system behaviors that only surface under controlled failure.

Mar 19, 2026Read →

Chaos Testing for Kafka Compliance: DR Evidence That Works

Chaos Testing for Kafka Compliance: DR Evidence That Works

Map chaos experiments to DORA, SOC 2, PCI-DSS, and GDPR requirements. Turn your Kafka resilience testing into the compliance evidence regulators expect.

Mar 12, 2026Read →

Chaos Engineering for Kafka: Test Recovery Before You Need It

Chaos Engineering for Kafka: Test Recovery Before You Need It

Five tests that validate your Kafka disaster recovery plan before a real outage does. A practical guide for platform engineering teams.

Mar 4, 2026Read →

Kafka Disaster Recovery: The Complete Strategy Beyond Replication

Kafka Disaster Recovery: The Complete Strategy Beyond Replication

Three operational phases, six technical areas, and a failover runbook. The complete disaster recovery strategy most Kafka teams are missing.

Feb 11, 2026Read →

Why Kafka Platform Health Requires More Than Monitoring

Why Kafka Platform Health Requires More Than Monitoring

Platform health differs from infrastructure health. Observability alone won't cut it. Here are the questions that reveal your Kafka platform's real state.

Feb 2, 2026Read →

Kafka Schema Governance: From Chaos to Confidence in 4 Steps

Kafka Schema Governance: From Chaos to Confidence in 4 Steps

Fix Kafka schema chaos with a 4-step governance framework: visibility, audit, accountability, enforcement. Used by Swiss Post across hundreds of topics.

Jan 14, 2026Read →