Technical talks from data streaming experts.
Real technical talks from the people building and operating real-time data systems at scale.
Kafka New at Factor House: September 2026
Chad Harris and Derek Troy-West demo the new Factor House CLI, terminal UI and agent skills for Kpow, then cover CVE hygiene, new hardened Docker images, Signals, and the redesigned Kpow UI coming in October.
Chad Harris & Derek Troy-West, Factor House
Kafka Agreed vs. validated: fixing schema quality across multi-producer Kafka topics at Siemens
Stefan Baer, Senior Key Expert in Data Integration at Siemens, shares how an iterative, AI-assisted process uncovered silent schema drift across a multi-producer Kafka topology, and the staged validation strategy Siemens is rolling out to fix it.
Stefan Baer, Siemens
Kafka 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
Kafka 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
Iceberg 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
Kafka 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
Kafka 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 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
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