South Bay.NET: Stream Processing with Apache Kafka and .NET


Details
Apache Kafka is a scalable streaming platform that forms a key part of the infrastructure at many companies including Uber, Netflix, Walmart, Airbnb, Goldman Sachs and LinkedIn. In this talk Matt will give a technical overview of Kafka, discuss some typical use cases (from surge pricing to fraud detection to web analytics) and show you how to use Kafka from within your C#/.NET applications.
Matt Howlett
Matt is a Software Engineer at Confluent where he works on Apache Kafka client libraries (including their recently released .NET client). Prior to joining Confluent he worked on materials tracking & optimization systems for large mining companies in Australia. For more information follow Matt on Twitter at @matt_howlett (https://twitter.com/matt_howlett).
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Location
We will meet at the German International School of Silicon Valley (GISSV) in Room 21. Please see map below for campus details.
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Agenda
6:30 Pizza and Networking
6:55 Announcements
7:00 - 7:45 Presentation - Part I
7:45 - 8:00 Short break
8:00 - 9:00 Presentation - Part 2
9:00 - 9:15 Raffle and Wrapping up

South Bay.NET: Stream Processing with Apache Kafka and .NET