The Bottleneck Is Not the Technology
Stephan Schiffner is the CTO at Steadforce, a Munich-based tech consultancy working in platform engineering, data streaming, and AI. He has watched Kafka platforms get built across a lot of client environments, and the blocker that shows up after the first version ships is rarely the technology.
In this conversation
- →Why Kafka is the basis of many platforms, but never a solution alone
- →The real challenge after the first version ships: onboarding the business units
- →How internal IT becomes the bottleneck for the platform’s own customers
- →The remedy: clear prioritization, good onboarding materials, and a genuinely self-service platform
"The internal IT is kind of a bottleneck, because they don't manage to build all the requirements that are coming from the business units."