Ebooks & Whitepapers
Free guides from Kafka practitioners.
Where Kafka Costs Hide: A Field Guide
For platform leads, Kafka architects, and streaming engineers who know Kafka is expensive but can't fully explain where or why. A structured way to find, quantify, and act on the hidden costs in your estate.
Kafka Disaster Recovery Beyond Replication
A complete Kafka DR strategy covering six technical areas beyond data replication, organized across three operational phases. Includes chaos testing methodology, compliance mapping, and a failover runbook.
The Kafka Debugging Playbook: Six Phases from Alert to Root Cause
A Kafka troubleshooting and debugging framework for developers, SREs, and DevOps teams. Three production incidents walked through from alert to root cause, covering consumer lag, Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, offset resets, and reducing MTTR.
Conduktor + Amazon MSK: A Better Way to Run Kafka at Scale
See how Conduktor and Amazon MSK work better together to deliver the governance, security, and operational capabilities teams need to run Kafka at scale.
Kafka Disaster Recovery Readiness Checklist
Six technical areas that determine whether you recover in minutes or hours. A practitioner-built checklist for Kafka disaster recovery beyond replication.
The 2025 Data Streaming & AI Report
Benchmark your streaming maturity against 500+ data leaders. Learn why 84% say streaming is essential for AI success.
The Journey to Self-Service
A step-by-step checklist to eliminate Kafka bottlenecks. Lessons from Swiss Post, BMW, and Virgin Australia.
Federating Data Governance: Scaling Kafka Without Losing Control
Balance developer autonomy with platform control. Practical patterns for governing Kafka across multiple teams.
AI Can't Wait: Why Real-Time Systems Demand Upstream Data Quality
Stop AI hallucinations at the source. Learn to enforce data quality before bad data reaches your models.
Swiss Post Democratizes Kafka Usage, Growing 5× with Conduktor
How Swiss Post scaled from 60 to 300+ Kafka applications without adding headcount. Real numbers, real lessons.
Governing Kafka Data for the AI Era
Field-level encryption, policy enforcement, and zero-trust patterns for GenAI-ready Kafka pipelines.
Achieving Data Security for Kafka
Encryption, RBAC, audit logging, and chaos testing. Everything you need to secure sensitive data in Kafka.
Kafka at Scale: Five Critical Challenges and How to Solve Them
Data quality, hidden costs, operational silos—five pitfalls that derail Kafka projects and how to avoid them.
