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Industry Apache Kafka 4.3.0: A guide for platform engineers
Kafka 4.3.0 covers broker cordoning, partition size metrics, share group tuning, and tiered storage fixes. Here's what platform engineers need to act on.
Product Data governance for Kafka: introducing lineage support in Factor Platform
Learn how Factor Platform brings OpenLineage metadata into your Kafka environment, making data ownership, PII classification, and lineage visible by default.
Industry What the IBM Confluent acquisition means for Kafka users
IBM's $11B Confluent acquisition raises questions for Kafka users. Assess your lock-in risk across Schema Registry, managed connectors, and operational tooling.
Best free Kafka UI tools in 2026
Compare the best free Kafka UI and management tools in 2026: Kpow Community Edition, Conduktor Console Community, Lenses Community Edition, AKHQ, and Kafbat UI.
Clone to topic for Dead Letter Queues in Apache Kafka
Learn about Clone to Topic, the latest feature available in Kpow 96.2, enabling you to replay Dead Letter Queue (DLQ) records inside a governed UI.
Kafdrop: Review, pricing, and best alternatives in 2026
Kafdrop review for 2026: strengths, limitations, pricing, and the best alternatives for platform and data engineers running production Kafka clusters.
Kafka dashboard: the features that matter in production
A Kafka dashboard gives you real-time visibility into consumer lag, broker health, and partition state. Here's what to look for and how Kpow delivers it in production.
Kafka management console: what to look for in a tool
A Kafka management console gives your team full control of topics, consumers, schemas, and connectors from one UI. See what to look for and how Kpow delivers it.
Kafka message key best practices
A technical guide to Kafka message key best practices covering partitioning, ordering guarantees, hot keys, log compaction, and serialization for production systems.
Kafka security architecture: best practices for production
Kafka ships insecure by default. Learn how to build a production-ready Kafka security architecture covering TLS encryption, SASL authentication, ACLs, audit logging, and network isolation.
Kafka UI: The Ultimate Guide
A Kafka UI is a web interface for managing Apache Kafka, giving operators visual control over topics, consumers, brokers, and connectors without the CLI.
Dead letter queues in Kafka: patterns and pitfalls
How to implement a dead letter queue in Apache Kafka, with Spring Kafka, Connect, and Streams examples, and the production failure modes to avoid.