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Apache Kafka temporary access & just-in-time permissions: Kpow demo

September 16, 2026 2 min Speaker: Chad Harris, Factor House
RBACJust-in-time accessAPICompliance

Standing access to production Kafka clusters is exactly what regulated environments try to avoid, but engineers still need to get in and do the work when there’s a legitimate reason. Chad Harris walks through temporary, time-boxed permissions in Kpow: granting scoped access, like data inspection on one topic or broker edit on one cluster, to a specific role for a set duration, which then expires automatically.

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Chad Harris

Chad Harris

Solutions Architect, Factor House

Chad Harris is a Solutions Architect at Factor House, bringing 18 years of experience across software engineering, application architecture, and engineering leadership. He has deep hands-on expertise with Apache Kafka, high-volume transactional systems, and PCI-compliant architectures, most recently as an Engineering Leader at Block (formerly Square).

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