A Tour of Apache Kafka

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Join us for our next Singapore Apache Kafka meetup on November 1st from 7:00pm hosted by WeWork. The address, agenda and speaker information can be found below. See you there!

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Agenda:
7:00pm: Doors open
7:00pm - 7:30pm: Pizza, Drinks and Networking
7:30pm - 8:15pm: Matt Howlett, Confluent
8:15pm - 9:00pm: Victor Wibisono, Singapore Airlines

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Speaker:
Matt Howlett

Bio:
As an early employee at Confluent, Matt has worked on many of Confluent's open source and enterprise products including Confluent Control Center, Schema Registry, Rest Proxy and Apache Kafka client libraries in various languages. Prior to joining Confluent, Matt spent many years developing materials tracking and optimization systems for large mining companies in Australia. His first exposure to distributed systems was in the computer games industry where he worked on the server of a massively multiplayer online game engine.

Title:
A Tour of Apache Kafka

Abstract:
Apache Kafka is a scalable streaming platform that forms a key part of the infrastructure at many companies including Netflix, Walmart, Uber, Goldman Sachs and LinkedIn. In this talk, Matt will give a technical overview of Kafka and how it differs from traditional messaging systems. He will then walk through some typical use cases including how Kafka can be used as a backbone for building fault tolerant micro-services, how it can be used to connect applications and data stores together at scale, and how to processing large quantities of data in real time using the Kafka Streams API and KSQL

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Speaker:
Victor Wibisono

Bio:
Victor is a data engineer at Singapore Airlines (SIA). The data engineering team at SIA work on a large variety of challenging data projects across the airline.

Title:
KSQL and Kafka Streams for Predictive Maintenance

Abstract:
In this talk, Victor will discuss how and why his team chose Kafka, Kafka Streams and KSQL to build SIA's predictive maintenance pipeline.

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Special thanks to our friends from WeWork for hosting us!

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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.