IN-PERSON: Apache Kafka® Meetup Kraków - April 2024

Join us for an Apache Kafka® meetup on April 25th from 6:00pm in Kraków hosted with our friends at VirtusLab! The talks will be presented in English.

📍Venue:
HEVRE | Bar & Restaurant
Beera Meiselsa 18, 31-058 Kraków, Poland

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🗓 Agenda:

• 6:00pm: Doors open/Welcome
• 6:00pm - 6:10pm: Drinks & Networking
• 6:10pm - 6:50pm: Harry Kimpel, Principal Developer Relations Engineer, New Relic
• 6:50pm - 7:05pm: Drinks & Networking
• 7:05pm - 7:45pm: Łukasz Kuzio, Software Engineer, VirtusLab
• 7:45pm - 8:00pm: Additional Q&A & Networking

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💡 Speaker One:
Harry Kimpel, Principal Developer Relations Engineer, New Relic

Title of Talk:
Tracing Kafka with OpenTelemetry

Abstract:
Ideally, you should be using distributed tracing to trace requests through your system, but Kafka decouples producers and consumers, which means there are no direct transactions to trace between them. Kafka also uses asynchronous processes, which have implicit, not explicit, dependencies. That makes it challenging to understand how your microservices are working together.

However, it is possible to monitor your Kafka clusters with distributed tracing and OpenTelemetry. You can then analyze and visualize your traces in an open source distributed tracing tool like Jaeger or a full observability platform like New Relic. In this talk I will leverage a simple application to show how you can achieve this.

Bio:
Passionate software craftsman with 25+ years experience in a broad spectrum of development technologies and platforms. Mostly focusing on .NET/C#, the Microsoft development stack and cloud-native software architectures. Key focus also on Microsoft Azure as well as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Observability, monitoring and securing these environments are key aspects. Currently extremely interested in the Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr).

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💡 Speaker Two:
Łukasz Kuzio, Software Engineer, VirtusLab

Title of Talk:
A Case Study of Eventing Platform Development

Abstract:
I will present a case study of the eventing platform that I have been developing for over 4 years. We processed approximately 1 million events per day. While this quantity may not be impressive, its impact on the business and the acceleration of many processes have propelled the company into the 21st century. I will explain how the platform evolved from one to over 200 integrations, and how we migrated between cloud providers while maintaining a 99.95% SLA. I will also discuss why Kafka was a double-edged sword that, at some point, hindered further development. It won't go without mentioning failures.

Bio:
With over 10 years of experience in the industry, he worked as a developer, team leader, and extinguished fires in projects related to digital identity and the integration platform of a large retailer. He observed the evolution of agile work methods to derive pleasure from Kanban. Engaged in the development of the JVM and Cloud community in Rzeszów. Extinguishing fires in projects evolved into a passion for saving others as a firefighter.

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DISCLAIMER
BY ATTENDING THIS EVENT IN PERSON, you acknowledge that risk includes possible exposure to and illness from infectious diseases including COVID-19, and accept responsibility for this, if it occurs.
*For more information on the virus guidelines specific to Poland please visit https://www.gov.pl/web/coronavirus/temporary-limitations

NOTE: We are unable to cater for any attendees under the age of 18.