Mesosphere and Confluent at our first Kafka Meetup in Manchester

Join us for our First Manchester Apache Kafka meetup on March 28th from 6:00pm hosted and sponsored by ThoughtWorks. The agenda, venue 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: From batch to pipelines - why Apache Mesos and DC/OS are a solution for emerging patterns in data processing by Matt Jarvis, Mesosphere
7:15 pm - 8:00pm: Look Ma, no Code! Building Streaming Data Pipelines with Apache Kafka and KSQL by Robin Moffatt, Confluent
8:00pm - 8:20pm - Travel Counsellors: our journey from a Monolith to Microservices with Fast Data Streaming by Tahir Mahmood and Dan Conway
8:20pm - 8:45pm - Additional Q&A & Networking

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Title:
From batch to pipelines - why Apache Mesos and DC/OS are a solution for emerging patterns in data processing

Abstract:
Data processing paradigms are undergoing a paradigm shift as we move more and more towards real time processing. Emerging software models such as the SMACK stack are at the forefront of this change, focused on a pipeline processing model, but are also introducing new levels of operational complexity in running multiple complex distributed systems such as Spark, Kafka and Cassandra. Apache Mesos is a distributed system for running other distributed systems, often described as a distributed kernel. It's in use at massive scale at some of the worlds largest companies like Netflix, Uber and Yelp. DC/OS is an open source distribution of Mesos, which adds all the functionality to run Mesos in production across any substrate, both on-premise and in the cloud. In this talk, I'll introduce both Mesos and DC/OS and talk about how they work under the hood, and what the benefits are of running these new kinds of systems for emerging cloud native workloads

Speaker:

Matt Jarvis

Bio:

Matt Jarvis is Senior Director of Community and Evangelism at Mesosphere, engaging with the communities around DC/OS and Apache Mesos. Matt has spent more than 15 years building products and services around open source software, on everything from embedded devices to enterprise class distributed systems. Most recently he has been focused on the open cloud infrastructure space, and in emerging patterns for cloud native applications.

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Title:
Look Ma, no Code! Building Streaming Data Pipelines with Apache Kafka and KSQL

Abstract:
Have you ever thought that you needed to be a programmer to do stream processing and build streaming data pipelines? Think again!

Companies new and old are all recognising the importance of a low-latency, scalable, fault-tolerant data backbone, in the form of the Apache Kafka streaming platform. With Kafka, developers can integrate multiple sources and systems, which enables low latency analytics, event driven architectures and the population of multiple downstream systems. These data pipelines can be built using configuration alone.

In this talk, we’ll see how easy it is to stream data from a database such as Oracle into Kafka using the Kafka Connect API. In addition, we’ll use KSQL to filter, aggregate and join it to other data, and then stream this from Kafka out into multiple targets such as Elasticsearch and MySQL. All of this can be accomplished without a single line of code!

Why should Java geeks have all the fun?

Speaker:
Robin Moffatt, Confluent

Bio:
Robin is a Partner Technology Evangelist at Confluent, the company founded by the creators of Apache Kafka, as well as an Oracle ACE Director. 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 https://www.confluent.io/blog/author/robin/ 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.

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Title:

Travel Counsellors: our journey from a Monolith to Microservices with Fast Data Streaming.

Abstract:
It will start with an explanation of what we currently have and why we architected a new Microservices based eco-system based on Mesos utilising Kafka and what value having a relationship both with Confluent and Mesosphere has brought to the journey.

Speakers:
Tahir Mamood and Daniel Conway

Bios:
Tahir is a software architect at Travel Counsellors who is taking the company on a modernisation journey from monolith to microservices in the cloud with fast data streaming and AI. Tahir has been in the tech space since 1989 with his first role at Microsoft then a long career building multiple ventures and solving complex problems but always pushing the boundaries of technology.

Dan is a Lead Developer at Travel Counsellors, a home-based travel company operating in seven countries. He has been developing .net applications for over 14 years covering things like network management through to finance systems while often also wearing a business analyst hat. He is a keen advocate of Domain-Driven Design, CQRS and Event-Driven Architectures.

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Special thanks to ThoughtWorks (https://www.thoughtworks.com/locations/manchester) who are hosting and sponsoring us for this event.

Don't forget to join our Community Slack Team (https://launchpass.com/confluentcommunity) !

If you would like to speak or host our next event please let us know! community@confluent.io

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.