Kong NYC In-Person Meetup

We are thrilled to invite you to our first in-person meetup in NYC for 2023 in collaboration with EPAM! Get ready for an evening full of insightful talks, networking and delicious food and drinks.

Kong makes connecting APIs and microservices across today’s hybrid, multi-cloud environments easier and faster than ever.

We power trillions of API transactions for leading organizations globally through our end-to-end API platform.

When:
March 30, 17:00 - 21:00

Agenda:
17:00 - 18:00 Everyone arrives & Networking
18:00 - 18:30 Talk 1 Introduction to EPAM and Kong by Randi Byrne
18:30 - 19:15 Talk 2 Let's Mesh Things Up: A Service Mesh Crash Course for Developers by Viktor Gamov
19:15 - 21:00 Networking, Food & Drinks

Talks:
Talk 1: Intro of EPAM and the partnership with Kong, where do they see high ROI with Service Mesh.

Talk 2: In the world of microservices, service mesh has become an essential infrastructure for managing communication between different components of an application. But how can you build a reliable and secure microservices architecture?

In this Service Mesh Crash Course, Viktor Gamov, Principal Developer Advocate at Kong, will guide you through the jungle of service mesh. Viktor will demystify the concept of service mesh and show how it can be used to simplify the management of microservices while providing a Zero Trust security model. No prior knowledge of service mesh is required!

Whether you're a developer or an operator/SRE who supports microservices, you'll find something helpful in this talk. Viktor will show you how to use projects like Kuma and Kong Mesh to implement a service mesh that captures logs, traces, and metrics for observability. He'll also talk about the importance of a service mesh in handling communication between different components and managing network complexity. Get ready to mesh things up!

Speakers:
Randi Byrne is a technical director for EPAM. Starting his career at IBM, he then founded and later sold his consulting company and started focusing on API transformations. He currently leads large scale transformations turning enterprises into API first organizations.

Viktor Gamov is a Principal Developer Advocate at Kong. He has a comprehensive expertise in building distributed systems and cloud-native architectures using open source technologies.
He enjoys helping architects and developers design and develop low latency, scalable, and highly available systems. He is a professional conference speaker on distributed systems, streaming data, JVM, and DevOps topics. He's regular on events including JavaOne, Devoxx, OSCON, QCon, and others. Viktor has co-authored books O'Reilly's «Enterprise Web Development» and Manning's «Apache Kafka® in Action.»
He blogs at http://gamov.io and co-hosts KongCast https://pod.link/kongcast.
Follow Viktor on Twitter @gamussa, where he posts there about gym life, food, open-source, and Kong and Cloud.

Address:
275 7th Ave Suite 2002, New York, NY 10001, United States