Join us for this special event with the opportunity to learn all about open source Apache Kafka from the largest payments provider in Europe. Please note you must register before entry.
Date and Time: 🗓️ Tuesday 8th October, ⏰ 18:00 - 20:00 PM 🕘
Venue: Worldpay, The Walbrook Building, 25 Walbrook, London, EC4N 8AF
Attending Brands: Worldpay, OSO & Confluent
Networking: Pizza + Beer at the start
Schedule:
18:00: Welcome/doors Open, Food, drinks, networking
18:30 - 19:15: “Kafka: The challenges of technology adoption in a hybrid world” Paul Medcalf, Worldpay
19:15 - 20:00pm: “IaC in data streaming projects”, Sven Erik Knop, Confluent
20:00- 20:30pm: Additional Q&A & Networking
🎙️ ~Talk 1~
Talk Title: Kafka: The challenges of technology adoption in a hybrid world
Summary: Most enterprises need to integrate different systems at some level. Kafka provides an effective message backbone to provide that enterprise integration transport.
When the enterprise implements hybrid systems across cloud and on-premise many factors can influence the problem of how best to build a Kafka platform.
Combine the location diversity with extreme ranges of Kafka development team experience and building a fully operational platform to support diverse teams in multiple geographic areas is a significant challenge. The addition of a very agressive rollout timeline adds another dimension to the problem.
In this presentation, we walk through how Worldpay addressed the problem and ultimately delivered an operational enterprise wide Kafka platform in just a few short months from the ground up.
🗣️ Speaker 1: Paul Medcalf - Hybrid Cloud Systems Architect - Worldpay Paul Medcalf is a senior Systems Architect at Worldpay, designing and engineering a range of hybrid cloud systems. His background in development, systems and middleware design underpins an engineering team delivering Kafka, Java, DotNet and PHP based application platforms using infrastructure as code.
🎙️ ~Talk 2~
Talk Title: Infrastructure as Code is a well-known buzzword, but what does it mean for event streaming projects?
Summary: This talk tells the story of setting up an event streaming platform for a bootcamp in Confluent Cloud. This involves setting up the cluster, the topics, users and permissions, but it also includes uploading and configuring custom connectors to stream live events, providing reference data and use KSQL statements to prepare the events ready for consumption as data products - all driven by a single Terraform script as the single source of truth.
🗣️ Speaker 1: Sven Erik is a Staff Technical Instructor at Confluent, the enterprise event-streaming platform pioneer. Previously, he worked as Lead Consultant, Trainer and Evangelist at Perforce, deploying and maintaining large configuration management installations at various customer from leading gaming developers, financial institutions to chip manufacturers. He is a regular presenter at meetups and contributes to various open-source projects around Apache Kafka. In his spare time find him on a mountain hiking with his family and his dog, or sitting down playing board games with friends and family.
DISCLAIMER
* WE DO NOT CATER TO THOSE UNDER THE AGE OF 18.
*THIS IS AN OFFICE SPACE, PLEASE ENSURE TO CLEAN UP AFTER YOURSELVES AND TAKE CARE OF THIS SPACE. RESPECT THE SPACE AND THOSE IN IT. THIS INCLUDES: NO PHOTOS OF THE OFFICE, NO VANDALISM, GOING OUTSIDE OF THE MEETUP AREA ETC.