Hugo Guerrero

As generative AI moves from experimental novelties to mission-critical enterprise applications, the limitations of prompt engineering have become a significant bottleneck.

In the era of the "Connected Enterprise," data doesn't just stay inside your private network. You need to share real-time logistics with partners, stream live telemetry to mobile apps, and ingest events from third-party vendors. However, exposing your Kafka brokers directly to the internet is a major security risk. Traditional firewalls and REST-based API Gateways are ill-equipped to handle the persistent, bi-directional, and high-throughput nature of event streams. This session introduces the concept of the "Event Perimeter"—a dedicated architectural layer designed to facilitate secure event exchange. We will analyze the Event Gateway as a "Smart DMZ" that provides an air-gap between your internal event mesh and the outside world. We will dive deep into technical patterns for Zero Trust Streaming, including how to move authentication and authorization logic from the broker level to the edge. A significant portion of the talk will focus on Policy Enforcement. We will demonstrate how to integrate an Event Gateway with solutions of the ecosystem to perform fine-grained "Content-Based Access Control." This allows you to dynamically redact PII fields or filter specific events based on…

Agentic systems adopting MCP face a scalability hurdle: managing interactions with numerous servers exposing dozens or hundreds of tools. Injecting all tools into the model context, or "context bloat," increases latency, inflates context window usage, drives up costs, and degrades reasoning...

Apache Kafka is all over the place! Now you can begin using brokers, topics, and clusters. If you, like many other users, prefer the terminal to the graphical interface or web consoles, you should be familiar with these CLI tools to increase your productivity. It is a collection of applications that can assist you with everything from creating a cluster to managing your Kafka Connect connectors or Kafka users. Join us as we go over some of the most practical CLIs for Kafka-related tasks as well as some of the fundamental commands that will help you out. Starting with the scripts that are part of the Apache Kafka distribution, we'll move on to more general tools like kcat for Kafka and kcctl for Kafka Connect. Last but not least, if you are using Kubernetes, we will discuss tools for managing customer resources, such as kubectl and strimzi-kafka-cli.