Democratizing Access to Real-Time Data: Build a Self-Service Platform your Devs Love

Secure, policy-driven access to Kafka and event streams with native proxy and HTTP/WebSocket mediation—one developer-first platform.

In this session, Hugo from Kong introduces the Kong Event Gateway—a unified platform layer for REST and event-driven APIs. Learn how a native Kafka proxy and protocol mediation (HTTP/REST, WebSockets, SSE) simplify access, add centralized auth/policy, and improve observability and developer self-service.

Key topics covered:
- EDA challenges: broker-vs-client trade-offs and fragmented identities
- Native Kafka proxy through the gateway (authN/Z, schema validation, rate limiting)
- Protocol mediation to expose Kafka topics via HTTP/REST, WebSockets, and SSE
- Self-service via developer portal; automated provisioning of topics/credentials
- Unified governance and observability across APIs and events