Ron Kapoor
Technical Product Marketing Manager
Ron is Technical Product Marketer/GTM and Dev Rel at Conduktor, bringing experience from both financial services and startups. When he's not creating content or defining positioning and messaging for Conduktor's suite of products, he loves to engage with the community!
Kafka Migration Tools: What Each One Actually Moves
Asking which tool migrates a Kafka cluster is like asking which tool builds a house. A migration is five jobs, and each layer of the stack has its own tools.
Jul 23, 2026Read →
Kafka Schema Registry: Open by Default
By default, the Kafka schema registry is unguarded. How do you get true per-subject control without half-baked engineering workarounds?
Jul 10, 2026Read →
Kafka Guardrails Gate. Templates Guide.
Enforcement tells Kafka teams what they can't do, never what good looks like. Configuration templates are the other half of self-service provisioning.
Jun 23, 2026Read →
Why Copy a Kafka Topic Just to Filter It?
You don't have to. Topic views, now GA in Conduktor Gateway, give each consumer a filtered, projected view of a Kafka topic at read-time without copies.
Jun 18, 2026Read →
What We Learned at Current 2026
We were at Current 2026 in London last week. Between booth conversations and recorded interviews on the floor, here's what stood out.
May 27, 2026Read →
The Apache Kafka Security Playbook: Beyond TLS and ACLs
TLS only goes so far. The real Kafka security gaps: payload encryption, service accounts left rotten, ACLs that fall behind reality, and scattered audit logs.
May 11, 2026Read →
Set Up a Kafka Platform with an AI Agent
Install Kafka, configure governance, and onboard developers with one AI conversation. Open-source Conduktor skill for Claude Code, Cursor, and 30+ tools.
Mar 20, 2026Read →
Ground Control to On-Call: Kafka Debugging Has Landed
No more juggling 7 CLI tools. A walkthrough of debugging a Kafka consumer lag incident with Conduktor Console.
Feb 17, 2026Read →
Houston, We Have 7 CLI Tools and Zero Answers
You've accepted that debugging matters more than dashboards. Then you open a terminal and realize Kafka's native tools were never built for this.
Feb 6, 2026Read →
Why Every Kafka Incident Ends with \"Restart It\"
Teams invest in Kafka observability thinking they're prepared. Then an incident hits, and they realize dashboards don't tell you which room is on fire.
Feb 4, 2026Read →
IBM Acquires Confluent for $11B: What It Means for Kafka Teams
IBM's acquisition of Confluent validates streaming as critical infrastructure. Here's what changes for organizations running Kafka.
Dec 10, 2025Read →