Ebooks & Whitepapers
Free guides from Kafka practitioners.
When Kafka Becomes the Ledger
When transaction and payment data lives on Kafka, much of fintech's correctness work moves from apps to the proxy. A control-plane operating model.
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.
AWS MSK: Govern, Secure & Scale Kafka
How Conduktor and AWS MSK work better together: encryption, governance, resilience, and multi-tenancy at the protocol level, with no code changes.
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
How 200 senior IT and data leaders use data streaming for AI, and why the governance gap across platforms is holding back their return on investment.
The Journey to Self-Service
A six-phase checklist for moving Kafka from platform-team bottleneck to safe developer self-service, from assessment through governance to optimization.
Federating Kafka Data Governance at Scale
Escape the control-vs-autonomy dilemma in Kafka with federated data governance: shared guardrails, local autonomy, and how Conduktor delivers it.
AI Can't Wait: Real-Time Data Quality
Real-time AI acts on data the instant it arrives. See why data quality must be enforced upstream, in-stream, and how to build an AI-ready data strategy.
Governing Kafka Data for the AI Era
Kafka is AI's transport layer, but not secure out of the box. A field guide to governing streaming data quality, security, and compliance for GenAI.
Achieving Data Security for Kafka
A practical guide to securing Apache Kafka: encryption in transit and at rest, RBAC, audit logging, plus a readiness checklist for platform teams.
Kafka at Scale: 5 Challenges & Solutions
Five Kafka challenges at scale: poor data quality, manual workflows, team silos, zombie costs, and legacy sprawl, plus how to solve each one.
