IN PERSON: Apache Kafka® Meetup Munich - June 2024

Join us for an Apache Kafka® meetup on Tuesday, June 18th from 6:00pm in Munich hosted by AWS!

📍Venue:
AWS Amazon Web Services | Oskar-von-Miller-Ring 20, 80333 München, Germany

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🗓 Agenda:

• 6:00pm: Doors open
• 6:00pm - 6:30pm: Food, Drinks and Networking
• 6:30pm - 7:00pm: Peter Marshall, Director Developer Relations, Imply & Hugh Evans, Developer Advocate, Imply
• 7:00pm - 7:30pm: Harry Kimpel, Principal Developer Relations Engineer, New Relic
• 7:30pm - 8:00pm - Additional Q&A & Networking

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💡 Speaker One:
Peter Marshall, Director Developer Relations, Imply & Hugh Evans, Developer Advocate, Imply

Talk:
Real-time plane-spotting

Abstract:
Hidden from our eyes, aircraft in our skies are constantly transmitting data. Join us as we use some simple tech and the power of open source to fly through this data set. In this talk, see a Raspberry Pi, Apache Kafka, Apache Druid, and Grafana coming together for real-time data production, transport, OLAP, and interactive visualisation.

Bios:
Peter Marshall is an award-winning speaker who leads developer relations at Imply, having worked with adopters and users of Apache Druid for five years. Peter has worked in enterprise architecture in both public and private sector for over 20 years. He has a BA in Theology and Computer Studies from the University of Birmingham.

Hugh Evans is a Developer Advocate at Imply, helping members of the Apache Druid community and bringing them together. Hugh has spent time at the Raspberry Pi Foundation, IBM, and at Daemon where he worked as a consultant on large-scale software projects and cloud infrastructure. In his spare time Hugh organises the AI and Deep Learning for Enterprise meetup group.

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💡 Speaker Two:
Harry Kimpel, Principal Developer Relations Engineer, New Relic

Talk:
Tracing Kafka with OpenTelemetry

Abstract:
Ideally, you should be using distributed tracing to trace requests through your system, but Kafka decouples producers and consumers, which means there are no direct transactions to trace between them. Kafka also uses asynchronous processes, which have implicit, not explicit, dependencies. That makes it challenging to understand how your microservices are working together.

However, it is possible to monitor your Kafka clusters with distributed tracing and OpenTelemetry. You can then analyze and visualize your traces in an open source distributed tracing tool like Jaeger or a full observability platform like New Relic. In this talk I will leverage a simple application to show how you can achieve this.

Bio:
Passionate software craftsman with 25+ years experience in a broad spectrum of development technologies and platforms. Mostly focusing on .NET/C#, the Microsoft development stack and cloud-native software architectures. Key focus also on Microsoft Azure as well as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Observability, monitoring and securing these environments are key aspects. Currently extremely interested in the Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr).

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DISCLAIMER
BY ATTENDING THIS EVENT IN PERSON, you acknowledge that risk includes possible exposure to and illness from infectious diseases including COVID-19, and accept responsibility for this, if it occurs.
NOTE: We are unable to cater for any attendees under the age of 21.
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