Dublin Apache Kafka® Ecosystem Meetup by Confluent

Join us for an Apache Kafka® x Apache Flink® meetup on Thursday, October 8th from 6:00pm in Dublin hosted by Autodesk!

Venue:
Autodesk
1 Windmill Lane, 2nd Floor, Dublin D02 F206

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Agenda:

• 6:00pm: Doors open
• 6:00pm – 6:30pm: Food, Drinks & Networking
• 6:30pm - 7:15pm: First Speaker
• 7:15pm - 7:45pm: Data Streaming Quiz
• 7:45pm - 8:15pm: Epic Fails: Stories from the Trenches
• 8:00pm - 9:00pm: Additional Q&A and Networking

First Speakers:
Supreetha Venkatesha, Software Engineer, Autodesk & Seema Kamaraddy, Principal Engineer, Autodesk

Title of talk:
From Bespoke Streaming Apps to Declarative Pipelines: A Shared Eventing Platform on Kafka & Flink

Abstract:
Autodesk's products span the Construction, Manufacturing and Media & Entertainment industries, and their data lives across hundreds of independent services. Search, analytics, knowledge graphs and a growing set of AI features all depend on that data streaming continuously from the source systems. Moving that data means the same engineering work every time: stand up a stream processor, wire the source and sink connectors, handle schema drift, and get scaling, reliability and monitoring right — then do it again for the next destination. Repeat that for every source and every consumer, and integration cost becomes the limiting factor in how much data moves.
To change that, we built a shared eventing platform on Apache Kafka and Apache Flink. Producers publish canonical events once; consumers declare a pipeline in configuration, and the platform compiles and runs it. Teams never write or operate a streaming application. This presentation walks through the platform's components, the challenges of supporting multiple destinations from a single source, turning the solution into a reusable platform, and what we've learned from running it.

Bios:
Supreetha Venkatesha (Software Engineer, Autodesk)
Supreetha is a Software Engineer at Autodesk and part of the data streaming and processing platform team. With a strong interest in distributed systems and backend development, she helps build the eventing platform that teams across Autodesk use to move their data, with a focus on making that onboarding self-serve.

Seema Kamaraddy (Principal Engineer, Autodesk)
Seema Kamaraddy is a Principal Software Engineer at Autodesk, where she has spent the last few years building streaming data infrastructure. She builds and operates the Apache Kafka and Apache Flink pipelines that stream product data to the other Autodesk systems, and has contributed to their migration to Kubernetes and Flink 2.x.

Data Streaming Quiz:
For the first time, we are following the talk with a quiz. Expect a mix of questions on Kafka, Flink and the wider streaming ecosystem, some easy, some tricky, and a few that will surprise everyone in the room. Play solo or team up with the people around you. No prizes beyond bragging rights, but those count for a lot.

Epic Fails: Stories from the Trenches
We all talk about what went right. This is the segment for everything else. Grab the mic and share the time you brought down a cluster, replayed the wrong topic, misconfigured a consumer group at 2am, or shipped something you really wish you hadn't. Keep it short (a few minutes each), keep it honest, and tell us what you learned. This is an open floor, so come with a story ready. The best lessons in streaming rarely come from the things that worked.