"Kafka Day" with Neha Narkhede(Kafka co-creator) and Et al.

Hello Everyone,

We are excited to bring you first edition of "Kafka Day" - a full day of kafka talks and networking. Join us on 8th-Sep with sessions from Hotstar, Confluent, GoJek, Glassbeam, Elastic and an afternoon with Neha Narkhede, Apache Kafka co-creator and Confluent CTO.

Agenda:

10:00am - 10:15am -> Introduction

10:15am - 10:55am -> Social Signals: Bringing millions closer to their friends (Kuldeep Rishi, Subhojit Dutta - Hotstar)

11:05am - 11:50am -> Building Event Driven platforms with Elasticsearch and Kafka (Aravind Putrevu - Elastic)

12:00pm - 12:45pm -> Gojek Beast - A Kafka to Google Big Query persistence service (Rajat Goyal, Dinesh Kumar - Gojek)

1:00 - 1:45pm (LUNCH break)

2:00pm - 3:15pm -> Keynote and Q&A with Neha Narkhede (Confluent)

3:15pm - 4:00pm -> Kafka Connect @ Hotstar (Navgeet Agrawal - Hotstar)

4:00pm - 4:30pm -> Building a custom Apache Solr and Kafka connector (Saumitra Srivastav - Glassbeam)

4:30pm onwards - Refreshment, network and breakout

Venue:

Hotstar Office (7th Floor, Bagmane LakeView, Bagmane Tech Park, C V Raman Nagar , Bangalore)

Lunch, snacks and beverages will be provided at the venue. Thanks to Hotstar team for sponsoring venue and lunch. Also get a chance to win awesome kafka goodies.

You can also stream this event remotely through zoom at https://fox.zoom.us/j/578251564

Contact: Saumitra Srivastav (+91-9880-746-035)

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Abstracts:

Topic: Social Signals: Bringing millions closer to their friends

Sports is best watched with friends and at hotstar, we are leveraging this fact to bring our users closer. In this talk, we’ll show how we connect an individual user to his/her friends in near real-time when 25 million users are watching a live match on Hotstar. These notifications can be informing two friends when both join the same content, an invitation to watch a video together or chat with each other. This talk will focus on how we at Hotstar leveraged Kafka and Spark to generate a billion such messages and notifications on the fly to bring users closer to their friends & engage them while passively consuming content.

Speakers: Kuldeep Rishi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kuldeeprishi/) and Subhojit Dutta (https://www.linkedin.com/in/subhojit-dutta-712319ba/)

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Topic: Building Event Driven platforms with Elasticsearch and Kafka

Speaker: Aravind Putrevu (https://www.linkedin.com/in/aravindputrevu/)

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Topic: Gojek Beast - A Kafka to Google Big Query persistence service

At gojek, we built a tool to push data from Kafka to Bigquery.
In this presentation, we will talk about how we will talk about how we decided to come up with a custom solution to push data to bigquery, the architecture, how to manage changes in bigquery schema and learnings with the product.

Speaker: Dinesh Kumar (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dinesh-kumar/),
Rajat Goyal (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajat404/)

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Topic: Kafka Connect @ Hotstar

At Hotstar, we love Kafka connect! It is our single medium of the flow of information from our applications to our analytics use-cases. Over 1000 connectors spread across 10 different connect clusters are the pipes for the data flowing in & out of Hotstar's data-platform, Bifrost. This talk will discuss our experiences with Kafka connect, our challenges while working with popular connectors like Confluent S3 Connector & Debezium, and how a connect-first philosophy helps us scale our data-platform for Hotstar's use-cases.

Speaker: Navgeet Agrawal (https://www.linkedin.com/in/navgeetagrawal/)

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Topic: Building a custom Apache Solr and Kafka connector

Kafka Connect can make it easy to build pipelines with Kafka and complete your event streaming. Connectors ecosystem is a super important thing to make this happen. This talk will explain how to go about building one from scratch by using Apache Solr -> Kafka as an example

Speaker: Saumitra Srivastav (https://www.linkedin.com/in/saumitras/)