Starting Enterprise-wide Kafka Governance

Technical leadership isn't always about having the right title; it’s about having the right influence. When you are operating without direct authority, setting standards across autonomous teams requires a shift from "enforcing mandates" to "solving shared pain." The Mess: Visualizing the Chaos It began on a Tuesday in a conference room, facing a whiteboard filled with chaotic arrows representing event flows. The AWS MSK dashboard displayed a patchwork of inconsistent topic names. loan-processing