James White
Director of Product
What 200 Engineers Told Us at Current London 2025
Current London 2025 insights: data quality failures, migration complexity, developer bottlenecks, and Flink challenges shape Conduktor's roadmap priorit...
Jun 6, 2025
Conduktor Trust Validates Streaming Data Before It Breaks Your AI
Conduktor Trust validates streaming data quality at ingestion—preventing AI drift, bad analytics, and compliance failures with proactive governance.
May 21, 2025
Five Kafka Scaling Problems That Hit Enterprises Hardest
Schema registries won't save you. Real Kafka challenges at scale: zombie topics, unclear ownership, legacy integrations.
Apr 15, 2025
SQL Over Kafka: Transforming Real-Time Data Into Instant Insights
Query Kafka directly with SQL using Conduktor Scale. Access real-time insights, troubleshoot issues, and optimize operations without data duplication.
Dec 19, 2024
Financial Services Data Platforms Are Fragmented, Siloed, and Complex. Here's How to Fix Them.
FIMA Europe 2024: data management beats AI as top priority. Break silos, shift quality upstream, expand real-time streaming.
Nov 26, 2024
Building Kafka Tooling That Actually Scales: Security, Governance, and GitOps
Build scalable Kafka tooling with GitOps and governance automation. Avoid common pitfalls in real-time data security, costs, and compliance.
Jul 18, 2024
Why Kafka ACLs Break at Scale and What to Use Instead
Kafka's default security fails in production. ACLs become unmanageable, PII leaks, encryption is missing. Here's the fix.
Jul 11, 2024
Automate Kafka Configuration at Scale with GitOps
Complex infrastructure calls for automation. GitOps streamlines Kafka configuration and scales deployments efficiently.
Jul 4, 2024
Conduktor 2.0: Free Debugging, Monitoring, and Encryption Tools for Kafka Teams
Conduktor 2.0 expands free tier with debugging, monitoring, and encryption tools—simplifying Kafka for developers, architects, and platform teams.
Apr 11, 2024
Deploy Conduktor Console on AWS with CloudFormation in 10 Minutes
Deploy Conduktor Console on AWS in minutes using CloudFormation and ECS Fargate. Works with MSK, Confluent, Redpanda, and Kafka Connect.
Feb 19, 2024
How to Scale Kafka Across Teams Without Losing Control
Scale Kafka across teams with federated governance and self-service data platforms. Tackle access management, security, and onboarding bottlenecks.
Dec 22, 2023
Kafka Proxies, Cost Virtualization, and Flink: Takeaways from Current 2023
Key insights from Current 2023 and Big Data London: Kafka proxies for encryption, cost optimization through virtualization, and Flink's serverless future.
Nov 16, 2023
Four Ways to Test Apache Kafka Applications
Test Kafka components with Testcontainers, Streams test-utils, chaos engineering, and Conduktor Console. Ensure data quality and resilience at scale.
Oct 19, 2023
Desktop vs Console: Why Centralized Kafka Management Wins
Migrate from Desktop to Console: centralized deployment, RBAC, field-level masking, audit logs, SSO, monitoring—enterprise Kafka UI advantages.
Jul 12, 2023