Class Is Back in Session: What's New in Conduktor
A live 45-minute webinar on what shipped this summer: see who owns what, who has access, and what Kafka costs per team, plus a first look at what's next.
Speakers
New term, new syllabus
Straight from the team that builds Conduktor: Christoph Schubert and Ron Kapoor walk through everything we shipped this summer, plus a first look at next semester.
You'll walk away able to:
- Answer "who's actually using this topic?" in seconds, not Slack threads
- Put per-team Kafka cost in front of finance with chargeback
- Let teams self-serve Kafka while your guardrails hold
While everyone was on holiday, we did the homework.
You run Kafka as a service, which means you're expected to know who produces to what, prove it to an auditor, charge it back to a business unit, and never become the ticket queue that slows delivery down. This session covers what shipped this summer to help with all four, and where Conduktor goes next.
On the syllabus
- 🗺️ Chapter 1: See your estate, live. Lineage now shows real traffic, not just static wiring. "Who is actually using this topic?" answered in seconds, not in Slack threads.
- 📡 Chapter 2: Client telemetry without touching client code. KIP-714-style metrics collected at the Gateway, so you spot the misconfigured consumer before it pages you at 2am.
- 👥 Chapter 3: Group work, done properly. Resource templates, a public API for consumer group and connector lifecycle, and self-service requests with outcome notifications. Your teams do the work; your guardrails hold.
- 🧮 Chapter 4: Show your workings. Chargeback turns shared-cluster usage into per-team cost you can actually put in front of finance.
- 🔒 Chapter 5: House rules at the door. SASL/SCRAM for Gateway-managed security, multiple listeners, Schema Registry proxy, and centralized Schema Registry and KMS connections.
- ⭐ Extra credit: beyond Kafka. Flink statement management for Confluent Cloud, plus a first look at Conduktor for Agents, REST produce and self-service encryption.
We finish with office hours: live Q&A with the product team.
🎓 No pop quiz. No group project. Cameras optional. Just 45 minutes on what shipped and what's next.
Roll call: who should attend
Kafka service and platform owners, SRE and infrastructure engineers, data platform leads, and architects evaluating how to govern Kafka at scale. All welcome: existing customers, Community Edition users, and anyone still comparing options.
Event details
Date: Tuesday, September 15, 2026 Time: 4:00 PM CEST Duration: 45 minutes Language: English
Prefer German? We're running the same session in German at 11:00 AM CEST.
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