![]() While Confluent might be the poster child of the Kafka movement, as with just about every other open source project, an ecosystem of companies has emerged to capitalize on the growing demand for real-time data across the software spectrum. “The decision to switch to Apache Kafka is made at a higher level in a company’s hierarchy, but a long tail of developers impacted by that choice, and they need help to work with Kafka.”Ībove: Conduktor gathers all the required information and metrics from Kafka clusters and presents them in a single applicationĭevelopers can connect Conduktor to any cluster and all the related technologies associated with Kafka, including schema registry, ksqlDB database, and Kafka Connect, while it can work across private on-premises infrastructure and Amazon’s managed Apache Kafka service MSK, Confluent Cloud, among others. “Our core market is enterprise companies that don’t have access to the best engineers,” Orban told VentureBeat. ![]() It’s ultimately about helping companies make the most of their existing engineering resources, and minimizing the need for deep in-house expertise. In the simplest terms, Conduktor is a full-featured native desktop application that plugs directly into Apache Kafka to bring visibility to the management of Kafka clusters, applications, and microservices. In its short life so far, Conduktor claims to have attracted some 60,000 users from more than 9,000 companies, including Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, DraftKings, and Olo. Bringing visibility to KafkaĬonduktor is the handiwork of Nicolas Orban (CEO), Stephane Maarek (CMO), and Stephane Derosiaux (CTO), who founded the company just last year following their own frustrations working with Kafka and observing similar struggles at other companies. ![]() Today, Conduktor announced that it has raised $20 million in a series A round of funding led by Accel, with participation from Frontline Ventures and Aglaé Ventures, as it looks to “simplify working with real-time data” on the Apache Kafka platform. ![]()
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