Tim Berglund - Kafka as a Platform: the Ecosystem from the Ground Up

We are pleased to announce that Skill Distillery is opening up their facilities for our September 3rd meeting.

Skill Distillery
7400 E Orchard Road, Suite 200
Greenwood Village, CO 80111

5:30pm - Food and Networking

• Beer and water provided by Caroline Danielson of PeerSource (https://www.mypeersource.com/).

• Pizza and soda provided by Braden Colip of Apex Systems (https://www.apexsystems.com/).

6:00pm - Tim Berglund - Kafka as a Platform: the Ecosystem from the Ground Up

Kafka has become a key data infrastructure technology, and we all have at least a vague sense that it is a messaging system, but what else is it? How can an overgrown message bus be getting this much buzz? And can it possibly help solve everyday problems in the Enterprise? It can, because Kafka is merely the center of a rich streaming data platform that invites detailed exploration.

In this talk, we’ll look at the entire streaming platform provided by Apache Kafka and the Confluent community components. Starting with a lonely key-value pair, we’ll build up topics, partitioning, replication, and low-level Producer and Consumer APIs. We’ll group consumers into elastically scalable, fault-tolerant application clusters, then layer on more sophisticated stream processing APIs like Kafka Streams and KSQL. We’ll help teams collaborate around data formats with schema management. We’ll integrate with legacy systems without writing custom code. By the time we’re done, the open-source project we thought was Big Data’s answer to message queues will have become an enterprise-grade streaming platform, all in 60 minutes.

Tim is a teacher, author, and technology leader with Confluent, where he serves as the Senior Director of Developer Experience. He can frequently be found at speaking at conferences in the United States and all over the world. He is the co-presenter of various O’Reilly training videos on topics ranging from Git to Distributed Systems, and is the author of Gradle Beyond the Basics. He tweets as @tlberglund, blogs very occasionally at http://timberglund.com, is the co-host of the http://devrelrad.io podcast, and lives in Littleton, CO, USA with the wife of his youth and their youngest child, the other two having mostly grown up.

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