Kubernetes and Kafka for Fun and Profit

Hi,

We are delighted to have two great speakers at the next London Meetup. Matt Bates (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattbates25/) co-founder of Jetstack.io (https://www.jetstack.io/) come to talk to us about "Lessons running Databases in Kubernetes (https://kubernetes.io/)". Tim Berglund from Confluent (https://www.confluent.io/) (the Kafka guys) will follow with a Introduction to Kafka.

Matt's background is in solutions for the acquisition, management and exploitation of large-scale data. He has contributed widely to the Kubernetes project, both to the technology and to the ecosystem.

Tim (https://twitter.com/tlberglund) is a teacher, author, and technology leader with Confluent, where he serves as the Senior Director of Developer Experience. He can frequently be found at speaking at conferences in the United States and all over the world. He is the co-presenter of various O’Reilly training videos on topics ranging from Git to Distributed Systems, and is the author of Gradle Beyond the Basics.

In Tim's talk, we’ll explore the basics of Kafka as a stream processing system, learning the core concepts of topic, producer, consumer, broker, and the streams API. We’ll look at how topics are partitioned among brokers and see the simple Java APIs for getting data in and out. But more than that, we’ll look at how we can extend this scalable messaging system into a streaming data processing system—one that offers significant advantages in scalability and deployment agility, while locating computation in your data pipeline in precisely the places it belongs: in your microservices and applications, and out of costly, high-density systems.
And of course, we’ll look at the Kafka Connect API and how we can use it to get data in and out of MongoDB easily and efficiently. Come to the meetup for the most thorough overview of Kakfa you could hope to receive!

There will as always, be pizza, beer and soft drinks.