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Apache Kafka is mission-critical for many organizations—but where you deploy it matters just as much as how you use it. In this video, two OpenLogic experts discuss why they increasingly encourage customers to move their Kafka clusters to Kubernetes and utilize the Strimzi operator, and what that shift unlocks from an operational, scalability, and resilience standpoint.

Kafka is powerful—but common Kafka mistakes can quietly undermine performance, reliability, and scalability. In this video, two OpenLogic experts break down the most frequent Kafka anti-patterns they see in real customer environments—and how to avoid them. Based on hands-on experience fixing production Kafka clusters, this discussion covers: If you’re running Apache Kafka in production—or planning to—this video will help you spot Kafka mistakes early and apply proven best practices to build a more stable, scalable event streaming platform.

Andy Steinmann of MarketAxess walks through how his team learned that “managed” Apache Kafka wasn’t really managed—and why Confluent Cloud was different.

AI agents are only as good as the data they can access. In this video, we explore the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and how it creates a bridge between AI models and Apache Kafka. Learn how MCP allows AI agents to securely produce, consume, and manage Kafka topics in real-time—transforming your event streams into actionable context for LLMs.

Andy Steinmann of MarketAxess shares how access to Apache Kafka experts—not just software—became the turning point in MarketAxess’ shift to Confluent Cloud.

Dive into the biggest breakthroughs for the Confluent Connect ecosystem in 2025! This year, we made moving data easier than ever, from modernizing legacy systems with the Oracle XStream CDC Premium Connector to empowering developers with Custom SMTs and Custom Connectors on Google Cloud. Discover the over 10 new connectors we launched, including Snowflake Source, Azure Cosmos DB v2, and Neo4j Sink, plus the release of Confluent Hub 2.0. Learn how Confluent Cloud connectors are breaking down silos and building bridges for your next-gen AI and data modernization projects.

Message brokers are a critical component of modern distributed systems, facilitating asynchronous communication between services. Load testing message broker integrations requires special considerations since the interaction patterns differ from traditional HTTP-based APIs. Speedscale provides specialized tooling to help you load test applications that integrate with message brokers by.