When Apache Kafka fails, it fails big — and the business impact is often immediate and severe. The consequences go beyond underperformance; misconfigured Kafka implementations can lead to security breaches, system outages, and significant operational disruption, bringing your entire streaming data infrastructure to a halt.
As some teams have learned the hard way, maintaining a stable, high-performance Kafka environment demands a high level of expertise and ongoing “care and feeding.” It’s essential for companies that depend on their streaming data pipelines for revenue to understand how to monitor their deployments, scale and upgrade strategically, and avoid Kafka mistakes that could be catastrophic.
About the Webinar
Join our experts from Perforce OpenLogic will share insights gained from working with customers across various industries, from aerospace and finance to retail, to tackle their toughest Kafka challenges. You’ll hear about:
- Critical Implementation Pitfalls: What caused some of the biggest Kafka messes we’ve seen (and how we fixed them).
- Assessing the Health of Your Kafka Deployments: How to identify issues before they lead to slow response times or worse (i.e. data loss, downtime).
- Avoiding Rushed Upgrades: Why staying on stable LTS versions can save your organization from costly migration headaches.
- And more!
Avoid Kafka Failures With Help From Our Experts
Technical Support, LTS, Implementations, Upgrades, Training
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Presenters
Matthew Weier O’Phinney
Matthew Weier O’Phinney is the Principal Product Manager at Perforce OpenLogic and Zend, where he focuses on creating the tools and support developers need to build and deploy their applications. He has been using and contributing to open source software since 2002, counting a patch to the Blackbox window manager as his first public OSS contribution.
Matthew has led large open source projects, including Zend Framework, which he started developing on before its first public release, leading the project from 2009 to 2019. He has also contributed to standards bodies, has advised and participated in open source foundations such as The PHP Foundation, and is the Project Lead for the Laminas Project. He has contributed to many open source projects and communities, many of which can be found on github and his personal website.
Joe Carder
Joe Carder is an accomplished Enterprise Architect and technologist with over two decades of experience designing and implementing large-scale, mission-critical systems. At Perforce OpenLogic, Joe leads enterprise architecture initiatives and consults with Fortune 500 companies and startups alike to modernize their infrastructure, optimize cloud deployments, and adopt open source best practices.
Joe's expertise spans containerization (Kubernetes, Docker), integration technologies (Kafka, Apache Camel, ActiveMQ), and Infrastructure-as-Code automation (Terraform, Ansible). He has designed and delivered training programs on topics ranging from security as code to machine learning enablement and is a sought-after speaker at industry conferences such as ZendCon and DeveloperWeek. With a career that began in web systems administration and grew through senior engineering and architecture roles, Joe combines hands-on technical depth with strategic vision. He is passionate about helping organizations unlock the power of open source, scale with confidence, and align technology with business goals.