Our First Apache Kafka Meetup in New Zealand with guest Speaker from Confluent

Details:
Join us for new year 2018 Apache Kafka meetup on Thursday, 11 January 2018 from 5:30pm - 8:00pm, hosted by ZawBre in Wellington, New Zealand. The agenda and speaker information can be found below. See you there!

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Agenda:
5:30pm: Doors open
5:30pm - 6:00pm: Networking, food platters and drinks
6:00pm - 6:45pm: A Tour of Apache Kafka, Matt Howlett, Confluent
6:45pm - 7:00pm: Additional Q&A
7:00pm - 8:00pm: Additional Networking

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Speaker:
Matt Howlett

Title:
A Tour of Apache Kafka

Abstract:
Apache Kafka is a scalable streaming platform that forms a key part of the infrastructure at many companies including Netflix, Walmart, Uber, Goldman Sachs and LinkedIn. ZawBre is delighted and thrilled to bring Matt Howlett all the way from Palo Alto, Calfornia to share some technical insights with you re Apache Kafka and how it differs from traditional messaging systems. He will walk us through some typical use cases including how Kafka can be used as a backbone for building fault tolerant micro-services and how it can be used to connect applications and data stores together at scale. He will touch on how organisations can process large quantities of data in real time using the Kafka Streams API and KSQL.

Bio:
As an early employee at Confluent, Matt has worked on many of Confluent's open source and enterprise products including Confluent Control Centre, Schema Registry, Rest Proxy and Apache Kafka client libraries in various languages. Prior to joining Confluent, Matt spent many years developing materials tracking and optimisation systems for large mining companies in Australia. His first exposure to distributed systems was in the computer games industry where he worked on the server of a massively multiplayer online game engine. After his address there will be time for questions, comments and discussion.

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Special thanks to Confluent and Exhibitions Gallery of Fine Art.

If you would like to speak or host our next event please let us know! info@zawbre.co.nz

NOTE: We are unable to cater for any attendees under the age of 18. Please do not sign up for this event if you are under 18.