35th meetup - Kafka and HortonWorks use cases

Hello,

our best wishes for 2015! May the data be with you!!!

We have another great lineup of presentations for you, but we are still looking for a vanue that is super easy to reach by public transport e.g. in Antwerp or Brussels. Does anybody have any suggestions? Thanks already for that!

So, have a look at our agenda underneath and RSVP, so we see you there!
-BD.be

1/ Kafka, the Big Data message broker (Wannes De Smet - Sizing Servers)

Often described as the heart of any scalable Big Data cluster, Kafka has quickly become the message broker for your environment. As a message broker's task is to reliably move messages from component A to B (and C), doing so in a scalabale and reliable way with millions of messages is no small feat.

In this talk I will give a short intro of Kafka, followed by a deep dive through the entire process of reliably producing and consuming messages. Oh, and doing all of that in a distributed, highly-available, fault-tolerant manner, of course. We will walk through some the architectural requirements and operational intrinsics (configuration, monitoring, ...) of using and operating a Kafka cluster, based on experiences learned from moving a complex stack to Kafka in production.

So if you are still shifting CSV files around, take some time to get to learn the ultimate upgrade.

2/ Hadoop in the real world: stories from across Europe (Tim Marsten, HortonWorks)

See you there!
-BD.be