Homepoint are a large, US-based mortgage wholesaler and lender. Homepoint’s Software Platform teams needed to find a solution for database automation and make improvements to their overall database architecture.

Homepoint + Conduktor Success Story

Using the Conduktor Enterprise platform, OpenTag transformed their complex, multi-tool and multi-module Kafka experience into a powerful, streamlined workflow.

OpenTag + Conduktor Success Story

Learn how to drive high availability, performance and scalability by using basic Kafka Streams to implement event-driven microservices. 

Building Event-Driven Microservices with Kafka Streams

In this eBook, we look at why Change Data Capture systems have become popular, discussing how CDC works and how to scale it. We explore potential use cases for CDC, along with popular technology choices to build a CDC system in production environments.

Understanding Change Data Capture

This webinar will deep-dive into automating Kafka using a GitOps approach

GitOps & Kafka: Streamline Access Management with Console API

This webinar will focus on practical implementations for addressing Kafka data security and access management needs via Conduktor. We'll recap why ACLs alone are not enough.

Kafka Security 2.0: Securing your data with Encryption, RBAC and Audit

Apache Kafka is a highly available and scalable data streaming platform that thousands of companies use to support their mission-critical applications.

Rethinking your Kafka Experience with Conduktor Gateway

Discover the latest innovations in Conduktor, the go-to solution trusted by hundreds of thousands of developers worldwide to simplify and manage Apache Kafka.

Unleashing the power of Kafka

Customer engineer Mitch Henderson demonstrates how you can get much needed Kafka visibility in minutes through Conduktor Platform

Webcast: Kafka Masterclass: How to get visibility into Kafka in minutes

In this webinar, customer engineer Lorcan Cooke shows you how to make your life with Kafka easier, walking through the unique features of Conduktor Platform

Webcast: Conduktor Workshop

Conduktor co-founder Stephane Maarek and Head of Product James White dive into the new Conduktor Platform and show what it can do.

Conduktor Platform: The Next Step in Data Streaming

Join Conduktor co-founder and leading Udemy Kafka instructor Stephane Maarek for a quick-fire 15-minute webcast where he will show you the fastest way to start a Kafka cluster ever.

The Fastest Way to Start Kafka Ever

At Conduktor, we've been building a game-changing new product to provide engineering teams everywhere with a unified testing platform that will transform the way you build, test and deploy Apache Kafka projects.

A Unified Testing Platform for Your Data Streams

Apache Kafka has become one of the most important tools for data engineers and large enterprises over the recent years.

Getting Started with Conduktor + Q&A #1

Getting Started with Conduktor + Q&A #2

Getting Started with Conduktor + Q&A #3

Every business wants to be able to offer a high quality and high speed service, but this is much easier said than done

Customer Stories: Homepoint

In this article, we discuss how safeguarding can be used to prevent outages and respond gracefully to change. Most organizations have some safeguarding policies in place, we've laid out the three most common stages of safeguarding and how Conduktor Gateway can help you prevent avoidable Kafka issues.

Proactive safeguarding with Conduktor Gateway

We're excited to launch Conduktor Gateway on our Marketplace to provide central platform teams responsible for Kafka with enhanced functionality. Enforce best practices, improve your governance, and reduce your cost.

Enhance Apache Kafka with Conduktor Gateway

In this article, we discuss why Conduktor felt now is the right time to introduce Conduktor Gateway to the world. Florent Ramiere shares his journey with Kafka from being a beginner to completing his first Kafka projects, his first mistakes, and how his approach to Kafka changed throughout this journey.

The story of Conduktor Gateway

This past March, the entire Conduktor team met outside of Paris for its fourth offsite event. CEO Nicolas Orban shares highlights and key learnings from our latest team gathering.

Key Learnings from Our 2023 Offsite

Data mesh is a paradigm that decentralizes data ownership and governance, enabling data domains to share and collaborate.

What is a Data Mesh?

In this article, we will discuss the two most viable ways to protect and provide access to resources inside of your Apache Kafka deployment. In addition, we'll discuss how your choice of trusted or untrusted entities impacts your auth strategy.

Security for humans and applications in Apache Kafka

In the final week of September, the entire Conduktor team gathered in Milan as we launched the Platform. Take a look at some of the best pictures from the event.

The Conduktor Team in Milan

 Learn what Change Data Capture (CDC) is, its use cases, and mechanisms.

What is Change Data Capture Anyways?

A look at the Apache Kafka security features available for users of the Conduktor Platform.

Security for Apache Kafka in Conduktor Platform: A Deep Dive

The Conduktor Platform is a new product that will transform your approach to Apache Kafka, providing solutions for Kafka management, testing, monitoring, data quality, security, and data governance.

Introducing the Conduktor Platform

Demonstrating how to use our latest product to validate workflows and test data integrity at each stage of your system architecture.

Validating Event-Driven Architectures

A look at how Apache Kafka & Apache Spark perfectly complement each other to solve for many use cases.

Kafka & Spark - A match made in data

Using Kafka Connect in Conduktor and specifically how to use Debezium to monitor the changes in a MySQL database.

Capturing MySQL database changes using Debezium, Kafka, and Conduktor

In this blog, we deep-dive into Kinesis vs Kafka, evaluating the data event streaming solutions across 5 dimensions.

Kafka vs Kinesis: Comparing Across Five Dimensions

Our latest release updates a number of dependencies to ensure maximum security for Conduktor Desktop users.

Ensuring Maximum Security with Conduktor Desktop v2.20.1

See how Conduktor helps extracting and visualization interesting insights out of your data.

Real-time data visualization

In this blog we'll go over Data Integration. What is it? Why is it? What are some of the benefits? Then, let's look at the how. 

Data Integration - The What, Why, and Benefits

We are proud to announce the launch of our Playground, giving Conduktor Cloud users access to two free Apache Kafka clusters for experimentation.

Kafka Playground: Two Free Clusters Without the Operational Hassles

Kafka's widespread usage has introduced problems related to governance, as different teams combine their Kafkas. Topic as a Service for the Conduktor Platform was built to help solve these issues.

Topic as a Service: Automate Governance Decisions for Apache Kafka

In this article, we’ll discuss what Zookeeper is, what its role is, its limitations, and how KRaft mode mitigates those limitations.

KRaft Quorum: How to run Kafka without Zookeeper

Monitoring and Alerts are vital for the long term health of systems, and Kafka is no different. Unfortunately, no solutions exist that have been configured especially for Kafka - until now. Conduktor Platform delivers seamless monitoring and instant alerts.

Conduktor Monitoring and Alerting - Deep Dive

Explore the difference between the two storage paradigms of data lakes and data warehouses. Learn the pros and cons of each and which situations they are suited for.

Data Lakes vs. Data Warehouses

A primer on real-time data streaming, the innovation that empowers the modern internet. Get a high-level overview of how it works and the challenges faced.

What is Data Streaming?

What are the coolest things you can do with Conduktor Platform? Aside from testing, monitoring, multi-tenancy, chaos engineering, and all that? It's not just new solutions, as the core Kafka UI offers several amazing new features. Take a look below.

4 key new features of Conduktor Console

Conduktor Console is the new user interface for Apache Kafka available in the Conduktor Platform. This blog will take a look at the features of the Console and how it can help your data exploration, Kafka operations, and troubleshooting.

Conduktor Console: The Evolution of Kafka User Interfaces

Kafka consumers pull data from topic partitions, but what happens if a consumer dies? How will the partitions be reassigned, and what is the best method of reassignment? This article looks at the partition.assignment.strategy configuration and the different options it enables.

Kafka Partition Assignment Strategy

Engineer Lorcan Cooke looks into what Schema Registry is and why you should use it for your Apache Kafka. In part 3, Lorcan demonstrates how to set up an Aiven Karapace registry with Conduktor Platform

What is the Schema Registry and why do you need to use it?

In this blog, we’ll look at data pipelines and the various potential pipeline architectures. We’ll also explore the technologies behind data pipelines, their features, and how they are constructed.

Getting Started with Data Pipelines and Data Pipeline Architecture

Conduktor Testing provides a simple, visual interface for testing applications that incorporate Apache Kafka. Find out more in our deep dive

Conduktor Testing - Deep Dive

Kafka Streams is a simple library built on top of Kafka that enables you to build real-time applications. In this article, we'll look at how Kafka Streams can be used.

Building Real Time Applications with Kafka Streams

A distributed system is a computing system in which the various components are spread out across a network of devices. The majority of modern computing involves distributed systems in some way and we'll look in more depth below. 

Distributed Systems

We're pleased to announce that topic-level role-based access control is now available in the latest versions of Conduktor.

Conduktor Now Offers Topic-Level RBAC

Apache Kafka offers a simple yet powerful architecture that can handle a wide variety of use cases. In this article, we will explore the details of Kafka's architecture.

Understanding the Apache Kafka Architecture

Apache Kafka and Apache Pulsar are both open source messaging solutions that can cover many of the same use cases, but with some key differences. We'll examine their strengths and weaknesses below.

Comparing Apache Kafka and Apache Pulsar

Apache ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, and Apache Kafka are generally considered messaging middleware. This article explores each technology, compares and contrasts the differences, and concludes with intended use cases.

Comparing Apache Kafka, ActiveMQ, and RabbitMQ

In this post, we’ll explore some methods you can use to test components within your Apache Kafka architecture. 

Testing your Apache Kafka Data with Confidence

A look at how Conduktor helps you manage the Topics on your Kafka cluster.

Managing your Kafka Topics with Conduktor

We’ve just raised $20M Series A funding and we’re super excited about what that means for our community. 

Conduktor raises $20M Series A

Protobuf is a powerful alternative to Apache Avro when it comes to data serialization and schemas compatibility.

How to Produce and Consume Protobuf Records in Apache Kafka

Using Conduktor to stream data between Apache Kafka and other data systems in a reliable and scalable way.

Why use Kafka Connect?

Kafka works on the basic model of decoupling the source system and target system, so instead of Source systems (Producers) directly sending data to the target system, now Source systems publish data to Kafka and Target systems or Consumers subscribes to these events to get data directly from Kafka.

How Replication and ISR work in Apache Kafka

Conduktor 2.1 is out with loads of fixes and a new feature for clusters with topic naming convention: smart groups.

Conduktor 2.1 - Smart Groups

Apache Kafka is a commit-log system. Kafka allows us to optimize the log-related configurations. These configurations can impact broker performance, and we'll show you how to optimize settings in this article.

Understanding Kafka's Internal Storage and Log Retention

We'd like to help the community and share our best practices when coding an API in Scala.

Open Sourcing our API Template

Conduktor allows you to start a local Kafka cluster in just a couple of clicks.

Exceptional customer experiences are the cornerstone of business success. It's where meaningful connections blossom, ensuring every interaction becomes a stepping stone to enduring relationships and growth.

Meet the team: Claire O'Regan

Insights and learnings from the forefront of data streaming

The Future of Data Streaming: Current 2023 & Big Data London

In this post we'll explore some methods you can use to test components within your Apache Kafka architecture.

Testing your Apache Kafka Data with Confidence (2023)

How to run SQL queries over Kafka in seconds? With PySpark, we get a system where we can run ad-hoc analysis locally and any SQL queries to explore our data quickly.

Getting Started with PySpark, Kafka, SQL, and AI

Learn whats new in Console v1.18. We’ve overhauled how we explore data in our Kafka UI and how we manage Kafka ACLs and Service Accounts.

Console 1.18 brings rich filters, Kafka ACLs, and Service Accounts

Design should be at the heart of any business, serving as more than mere aesthetics. It shapes how your brand and products are perceived, laying the foundation for customer engagement and loyalty.

Meet the team: Claudiu Danaila

Learn whats new in Console release 1.17. This release brings a host of exciting new features such as APIs and the richest set of configurable permissions available in any Kafka UI!

Console 1.17 brings programmatic access and granular RBAC to Kafka resources

What happens when you combine Conduktor and Redpanda? See how we are working together to give the best experience to developers and infrastructure teams. Simplicity and cost-efficiency.

Conduktor & Redpanda: Best of Breed Kafka Experience

Fostering a healthy work-life balance is crucial in a Series A start-up. Dive into our approach, challenges, and dedication to prioritizing employee well-being and driving innovation.

Promoting work-life balance in a Series A start-up

AWS provides an exceptional managed Kafka Streaming Platform while Conduktor provides the best tooling to work with Kafka! Let's see how they work together.

Conduktor available on the AWS Marketplace to complement MSK

From designing topics and optimizing performance to handling tombstones and tuning producers. Gain essential knowledge and best practices to build robust and efficient Kafka applications.

Top 5 Tips to build more robust and performant Kafka applications

Customers are at the heart of any business. Our job is to deliver them unrivaled value to drive their business prosperity and make their life easier.

Meet the team: Steve Schreck

So, you're an existing Desktop customer and are considering whether to make the leap towards Conduktor's shiny, web-based Console?

Why you should consider migrating to Conduktor Console

Customers are at the heart of any business. It's crucial to take great care of them, make them happy, and deliver them the maximum value we can.

Meet the team: Aurélie Marcuzzo

Apache Kafka is limited to 1MB-record by default. Increasing this limit may lead to issues if executed poorly. We provide an ingenious solution to overcome this without compromising Kafka’s performance and reliability.

Beyond Limits: Produce large records without undermining Apache Kafka?

Do you know what happens in your organization if one Kafka cluster fails? Let’s dive deep into Kafka failover strategies!

When Disaster Hits Kafka: Are you ready?

Should enterprises go with a Centralized approach? Decentralized? How to free the data in an organization and deal with all the challenges along the way?

5 practices for Kafka Leaders to build an efficient Streaming Platform

Kafka excels at moving data in-transit, but not so much about protecting data at rest — which is a necessity for enterprises. Let's delve into the current state of affairs exploring a typical scenario you may find in your organization, and our solutions to this challenge.

How to encrypt data in Kafka without piling up tech debt?

Conduktor Gateway sits between your Kafka clusters and your applications and works with the Apache Protocol. We review different ways to deploy it, pros and cons.

How to deploy Conduktor Gateway?

Kafka is amazing and easy to start with. It's rapidly adopted in any organization. Then the associated costs start to grow fast as well! Let's embark on the path to cost efficiency to avoid any surprises.

8 new ways to drastically reduce your Kafka costs

The most interesting feedback we got at Kafka Summit regarding what we do and where we're going

Kafka Summit London 2023: Feedback from our booth

Conduktor Platform and Confluent work together for next-level Apache Kafka