AWS Loft: Apache Kafka on AWS & Serverless: State of the Union

🌟AWS Jozi is delighted to announce that two speakers from the AWS Loft Johannesburg have agreed to speak at our next meetup! 🌟

𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐌𝐮𝐧𝐳 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐀𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞 𝐊𝐚𝐟𝐤𝐚 𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐖𝐒

Apache Kafka is one the most popular open-source projects for building messaging and streaming applications. It takes data, makes it available to different applications, and therefore helps to eliminate daily batch jobs. Apache Kafka plays an important role for Change Data Capture (CDC) and in the world of microservices.
This presentation gives an overview of the new Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK). I will cover the technical underpinnings first. You will learn about brokers, topics, and Zookeeper first. Then I will explain what makes Kafka so special, analyse major pain points in on-prem Kafka projects, critically analyse how Kafka differs from Kinesis, and why the cloud is the by far best way to use Kafka.

𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐱 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐨𝐧𝐢 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬: 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐧

Serverless computing allows you to build and run applications without the need for provisioning or managing servers. It means that you can build web, mobile, and IoT backends, run stream processing or big data workloads, build chatbots, run code at the edge, and much more. This session will showcase what's new in the serverless world, with real-world examples and demonstrations of some of the newest services and features.

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Who they are:

𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝗠𝘂𝗻𝘀, 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁, 𝗔𝗪𝗦

Before he went "all in" with the cloud, Frank has worked as a DevOps engineer and software architect in Europe and Australia. Apart from containers, his interests lie in big/fast data, and machine learning.

Frank has over 20 years of industry experience. He ran his own boutique consultancy for more than a decade and worked for and on behalf of TIBCO, BEA, and Oracle. He is a published author of the book Middleware and Cloud Computing, and holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Technische Universität München (TUM).

𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐱 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐨𝐧𝐢, 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭, 𝐀𝐖𝐒

Alex is deeply passionate about web technologies and music. He has been building web products and helping other builders learn from his experience since 2011. His coding love spreads across the Python and the JavaScript communities, and he's been contributing to open-source projects such as the Serverless Framework and AWS SAM.
He co-organizes the serverless meetup in Milan, as well as ServerlessDays Milan (previously JeffConf).

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Agenda:
• 18:00 - Refreshments and networking. 🍻🍕🍻🍕🍻🍕🍻🍕
• 19:00 - 20:00 Presentation 🎬🎬🎬
• 20:00 - Conclude presentations. More refreshments and more networking. 👋👋👋