Ebooks & Whitepapers
Free guides from Kafka practitioners.
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.