# Jean-Louis Boudart

**Head of Customer Success Engineering**

## Articles by Jean-Louis Boudart

- [Data Silos Cost $3.1 Trillion Annually. Kafka Alone Won't Fix Them.](https://www.conduktor.io/blog/break-your-data-silos-before-they-break-your-business) (2025-05-02) — Data silos cost $3.1 trillion annually. Break them with Kafka + Conduktor's self-service, discoverability, and granular access controls.
- [How to Handle Large Records in Kafka Without Killing Performance](https://www.conduktor.io/blog/beyond-limits-produce-large-records-without-undermining-apache-kafka) (2023-06-19) — Bypass Kafka's 1MB limit without performance hits. Use S3 cold storage with claim check pattern for PDFs, images, and massive batches—seamlessly.