Running a cluster in the Cloud and ATM Fraud detection with Kafka and KSQL

Join us for an Apache Kafka meetup on January 10th from 6.00pm, hosted at the brand new Sky Betting and Gaming offices in Leeds. The address, agenda and speaker information can be found below. See you there!

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Agenda:
6:00pm: Doors open
6:00pm - 6:30pm: Networking, Pizza and Drinks
6:30pm - 7:15pm: ATM Fraud detection with Kafka and KSQL, Robin Moffatt, Confluent
7:15pm - 8:00pm: Running your own Apache Kafka cluster in the Cloud, Rami Alnawas, Sky Betting and Gaming
8:00pm - 8:30pm: Additional Q&A and Networking

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First Talk

Speaker:
Robin Moffatt

Bio:
Robin is a Developer Advocate at Confluent, the company founded by the creators of Apache Kafka, as well as an Oracle Groundbreaker Ambassador and ACE Director (Alumnus). His career has always involved data, from the old worlds of COBOL and DB2, through the worlds of Oracle and Hadoop, and into the current world with Kafka. His particular interests are analytics, systems architecture, performance testing and optimization. He blogs at http://cnfl.io/rmoff and http://rmoff.net/ (and previously http://ritt.md/rmoff) and can be found tweeting grumpy geek thoughts as @rmoff. Outside of work he enjoys drinking good beer and eating fried breakfasts, although generally not at the same time.

Title:
ATM Fraud Detection with Apache Kafka and KSQL

Abstract:
Detecting fraudulent activity in real time can save a business significant amounts of money, but has traditionally been an area requiring a lot of complex programming and frameworks, particularly at scale. Using KSQL, it's possible to use just SQL to build scalable real-time applications.

In this talk, we'll look at what KSQL is, and how its ability to join streams of events can be used to detect possibly fraudulent activity based on a stream of ATM transactions. We'll also see how easy it is to integrate Kafka with other systems—both upstream and downstream—using Kafka Connect to stream from a database into Kafka, and from Kafka into Elasticsearch.

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Second Talk

Speaker:
Rami Alnawas

Bio:
Rami is a Sheffield University Graduate with an M.Sc. in Information Systems, having worked in software development and operations across both the telecom and finance industries previously. He has since gone on to join Sky Betting and Gaming where he has embraced the DevOps movement across different tribes working within SBG. Hobbies and interests include going to the Gym, undertaking DIY at home and studying towards gaining new certification and acquiring new knowledge.

Title:
Running your own Apache Kafka cluster in the Cloud

Abstract:
We happily run multiple Kafka clusters on-premises with a variety of workloads and requirements. As the business continues to leverage the awesomeness of the cloud, we have been tasked to build a cluster for one of our squads. The purpose of this is to help them integrate with third-parties and provide a consistent hybrid architecture. This presentation will walk you through this journey, outlining the challenges we faced and how we overcome those challenges.

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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.