Advanced Kafka Virtualization: Virtual Clusters, Topic Views, and External Data Sharing

Do More with the Kafka Infrastructure You Already Have

Kafka environments tend to sprawl: more clusters, more partitions, duplicate topics, and replication pipelines that exist only to move data between them. Each one adds infrastructure cost and operational load, and most of it exists to solve isolation and access problems.

In this live, hands-on workshop, you'll use Conduktor Gateway in a real AWS environment to isolate workloads, reduce partition waste, create topic views, and securely share Kafka data without changing application code.

No AWS account needed. We'll provide access to a live Conduktor environment on AWS so you can complete every exercise during the workshop.

What You'll Learn

Through a series of guided, hands-on labs, you'll learn how to:

• Create isolated virtual Kafka clusters across one or more physical clusters
• Hide internal naming conventions using clean topic aliases
• Consolidate low-volume topics to reduce physical topic and partition counts
• Create filtered and transformed topic views without duplicating data
• Securely share selected Kafka data with external applications without provisioning another cluster or replicating records

You'll leave with a practical understanding of how Kafka virtualization can reduce infrastructure overhead while giving teams more control over how workloads and data are accessed.

Part 2 of our Kafka proxy workshop series. It follows Introduction to Kafka Proxy Capabilities, but each session stands alone, so there's no need to have attended the first.

Who Should Attend

This workshop is designed for:

• Platform engineers operating Kafka environments
• Architects designing streaming and data platforms
• Developers building Kafka applications
• Engineering leaders responsible for Kafka cost, governance, or infrastructure strategy

Participants should have a basic understanding of Kafka concepts. No previous experience with Conduktor Gateway is required.

Event Details

Date: Thursday, October 8, 2026 Time: 11:00 AM ET Duration: 90 minutes Format: Live, instructor-led virtual workshop