Building a Real-time Streaming Platform Using Kafka Streams and Kafka Connect

This meetup is open to EVERYONE! We welcome our male allies!

Agenda:

5:30-6:30pm: Networking and Product Demos

6:30-7:30pm- Kafka Presentation by Neha

Modern businesses have data at their core, and this data is changing continuously. How can we harness this torrent of continuously changing data in real time? The answer is stream processing, and one system that has become a core hub for streaming data is Apache Kafka.

This presentation will give a brief introduction to Apache Kafka and describe it's usage as a platform for streaming data. It will explain how Kafka serves as a foundation for both streaming data pipelines and applications that consume and process real-time data streams. It will introduce some of the newer components of Kafka that help make this possible, including Kafka Connect, framework for capturing continuous data streams, and Kafka Streams, a lightweight stream processing library. Finally it will describe the lessons learned by companies like LinkedIn building massive streaming data architectures.

About Neha:

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Neha Narkhede is co-founder and CTO at Confluent, a company backing the popular Apache Kafka messaging system. Prior to founding Confluent, Neha led streams infrastructure at LinkedIn, where she was responsible for LinkedIn’s streaming infrastructure built on top of Apache Kafka and Apache Samza. She is one of the initial authors of Apache Kafka and a committer and PMC member on the project.