Gwen Shapira talks Kafka and the Service Mesh

Join us for our next Apache Kafka® meetup on August 21st from 5:15pm in Chicago. Uptake is hosting us at their amazing venue!! The address, agenda and speaker information can be found below. See you there!

The venue requires full name in order to grant you entrance. Please make sure you either RSVP with your full name and surname or you send it to me directly to ale@confluent.io

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Agenda:

5:15pm: Doors open
5:15pm - 5:45pm: Pizza, Drinks and Networking
5:45pm - 6:45pm: Gwen Shapira, Confluent
6:45pm - 7:00pm: Additional Q&A & Networking

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Speaker:
Gwen Shapira

Bio:
Gwen Shapira is a principal data architect at Confluent, where she helps customers achieve success with their Apache Kafka implementation. She has 15 years of experience working with code and customers to build scalable data architectures, integrating relational and big data technologies. Gwen currently specializes in building real-time reliable data-processing pipelines using Apache Kafka. Gwen is an Oracle Ace Director, the coauthor of Hadoop Application Architectures, and a frequent presenter at industry conferences. She is also a committer on Apache Kafka and Apache Sqoop. When Gwen isn’t coding or building data pipelines, you can find her pedaling her bike, exploring the roads and trails of California and beyond.

Title:
Kafka and the Service Mesh

Abstract:
Service Mesh is an infrastructure layer for microservices communication. It abstracts the underlying network details and provides discovery, routing and variety of other functionality. Apache Kafka is a distributed streaming platform with pubsub APIs - also often used to provide an abstract communication layer for microservices.

In this talk we’ll discuss the similarities and differences between the communication layer provided by a service mesh and by Apache Kafka. We’ll discuss the different paradigms they help implement - streaming vs request/response, and how to decide which paradigm fits different requirements. We’ll then discuss a few ways to combine them and to use Apache Kafka within a service-mesh architecture. We’ll conclude with thoughts on how Apache Kafka project and its ecosystem can evolve to provide some of the functionality available in service mesh implementations.

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