7 Common Apache Kafka Mistakes and How to Solve Them

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

10 AM PST | 1 PM EST | 10 AM BST | 10:30 AM IST | 1 PM SGT | 3 PM AEST

Open source Apache Kafka® is the de facto standard for real-time data streaming. Still, even experienced practitioners often fall into avoidable pitfalls that can lead to performance bottlenecks, reliability issues, and operational complexity.

Join us for an exclusive webinar where we’ll break down 7 common & impactful mistakes developers, architects, and operators make with Apache Kafka.

In this session, we’ll cover:

• The challenges of scaling open source Kafka
• The most frequent mistakes practitioners make when deploying Kafka (e.g., use of unsupported clients, misconfigurations to schema mismanagement, poor partitioning strategies)
• Best practices for deploying, managing, and scaling Kafka in production
• Key differences between Apache Kafka vs. Confluent and what you get beyond open source

Whether you're new to Kafka or managing mission-critical workloads, this webinar will help you solve these critical challenges and bolster your security, performance, and reliability.

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