Building a Stream Processing Architecture with Apache Kafka

Ready for another great event? Join us this day to connect and network with other professionals as well as to enjoy a great talk by Ty whom will provide an introduction to working with Kafka. These are some of the things he will touch during his talk,

• The theory behind the log as a data structure
• The basics of how Kafka brokers work
• An architectural overview of a stream processing setup that uses Kafka, Kafka Streams, and Kafka Connect
• A demo to set up and run a stream processing system on a local machine

Don't miss the Jetbrains license and t-shirts raffle!

++ About the speaker ++
Ty Brooks is currently a Staff Software Engineer at Sovrn, an ad-tech company based out of Boulder and San Francisco. He’s got about 6 years of experience working primarily on the JVM, and has been active in migrating his company’s application infrastructure from a monolith to smaller, containerized microservices. He’s interested in domain driven design, distributed computing, and modern architectural patterns. He’s been living and working remotely from Charlotte for the past 3 years, where he lives with his wife and his dog, and is expecting a son in January.

++ Agenda ++

6:00pm – 6:30pm: Light networking, food and drink
6:30pm – 7:30pm: Talk by Ty
7:30pm - Raffle :)
7:30pm – 8:30pm: More networking and drinks