Apache Kafka® & Databases - Turning tables into topics

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Join us for our first Apache Kafka meetup on February 25th from 5:00pm, hosted by Bankwest in Perth. The address, agenda and speaker information can be found below. See you there!

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Agenda:
5:00pm: Doors open
5:00pm - 5:30pm: Networking, Pizza and Drinks
5:30pm - 6:15pm: Mark Teehan, Confluent
6:15pm - 7:00pm: Brett Randall, Confluent
7:00pm - 7:30pm: Additional Q&A and Networking

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Speaker:
Mark Teehan

Bio:
In his day-to-day work, Mark engages with customers to evaluate business and technical requirements, helps guide technical teams while conducting POCs and acts as a liaison between customers and the engineering teams in Confluent. Prior to Confluent, Mark lead the HANA proof of concept team in SAP. His first role in Singapore was on the tech team implementing servers, databases, cards and devices for EZ-Link.

Title: Kafka & Databases - turning tables into topics"

Abstract: This talk from Mark will include an introduction to ksqlDB; a comparison of JDBC Source and Debezium CDC, as well as a demo.

Second talk: Brett Randall

Bio:
Brett Randall is a Systems Engineer with Confluent in Sydney, Australia. He helps organisations develop their Event Streaming strategy and implementations across the APAC region. Brett has a background in big and fast-data development, open source, machine-learning and cloud-first development.

Kafka 2.4, KIP-392: Working with the new follower-fetching feature

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