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Migrating to open source Kafka: cutting TCO without the operational burden Kafka
September 9, 2026

Migrating to open source Kafka: cutting TCO without the operational burden

Chad Harris (Factor House) and Justin George (NetApp Instaclustr) work a real total-cost-of-ownership comparison across Confluent, Amazon MSK, and managed open source Kafka.

Chad Harris & Justin George, Factor House

Reduce Kafka spend and operational risk: practical techniques for cluster consolidation Kafka
August 27, 2026

Reduce Kafka spend and operational risk: practical techniques for cluster consolidation

In this recorded webinar, Karel Sague and Chad Harris from Factor House share a practical framework for cutting Kafka costs and operational risk through cluster consolidation and migration.

Karel Sague & Chad Harris, Factor House

Journey to an open lakehouse with Iceberg Iceberg
August 14, 2026

Journey to an open lakehouse with Iceberg

Karel Sague, Staff Software Engineer at Factor House, shares real-world lessons migrating a production data platform from Snowflake to Apache Iceberg, streaming Kafka into Iceberg with Kafka Connect.

Karel Sague, Factor House

Implementing Kafka at Belong Kafka
July 29, 2026

Implementing Kafka at Belong

Nagaraj Ballapuram Gopal, Head of Enablement at Belong, part of Telstra, shares how the team implemented Kafka and the issues they ran into along the way.

Nagaraj Ballapuram Gopal, Belong

Running Kafka at bank scale Kafka
July 29, 2026

Running Kafka at bank scale

Sandy Yang, Staff Software Engineer on TD's Event Streaming Platform, shares how one of North America's largest banks runs Kafka in production.

Sandy Yang, TD

Kafka operational issues: how to survive them Kafka
June 25, 2026

Kafka operational issues: how to survive them

In this recorded session, Chad Harris, Solutions Architect at Factor House, walks through real Kafka operational failures and the debugging workflows that actually help in production.

Chad Harris, Factor House