Lean Operations for Fragmented Middleware: A New Model

Most organisations do not wake up one morning and decide to overhaul how they manage messaging and streaming. The shift usually begins with something far less glamorous. A delayed release because a queue was not provisioned on time. A compliance reviewer asking for audit evidence that takes days to assemble. Or a capacity scare on a Kafka cluster that no one saw coming.

The familiar moment in a war room, when everyone realises the issue is happening somewhere between five different platforms and no one has the full picture, is also a common trigger. These incidents…