Kafka Claus is Coming to Town: Unwrapping Data Streams with Lenses.io and Stream

Learn to make Apache Kafka less . . . kafkaesque.
From our office on the 70th floor in the Freedom Tower in NYC but also online from zoom, we are very excited to host several talks, a hands-on lab and network with pizzas and drinks for this last Meetup of the year.

Hands-on Lab by Drew Oetzel:
We will explore common issues with Kafka for both developers and platform engineers, and then learn to solve them easily and quickly with Lenses.

• Explore topics
• Mask data
• View streaming topology
• Search and filter data
• Use SQL to transform, split, and combine data

Learn the basics and common pitfalls of working with multiple Kafka clusters in the modern enterprise. We will cover best practices for working with clusters, topics, producers, consumers, connectors, data types, schemas, and more! Lenses will provide example Kafka and Lenses.iotraining environments for students to use for the hands-on labs. Just bring your laptop with a web browser.

A certificate of attendance is provided for all who complete the labs.

And our second talk: "StreamNative: Kafka Reimagined”
Thanks to tools like Kafka and Flink, you can route, analyze, and store business data in a multitude of ways but what's most important now is the ability to easily access that data, trust the data, and mitigate costs along the way,

Ken Lamken will show exactly how StreamNative's flexible Ursa engine has revolutionized the data industry; making modern data challenges easier than ever to solve.
Here is the Zoom registration link: https://celonis.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_40iYZZvfReaelFxeqcM34Q#/registration

Agenda:
4pm: Welcoming guests with snacks and chatting
4:30 - 4:45pm: customer panel with Kevin Tony, senior engineer, Hilton
4:45 - 5:45pm: presentation and handson
5:45 - 6:10pm: partner pitch StreamNative
6:15pm: networking and pizzas

*** For security reasons, the World Trade Center building needs to have the list of the guest names. Please RSVP with your full names. An ID will be required in order to enter the building.