IN PERSON! Apache Kafka® x Apache Flink® Meetup - February 2025

Hello everyone! Join us for an Apache Kafka® x Apache Flink® meetup on Feb 20th from 5:30pm, hosted by Microsoft Reactor in Sydney!

The address, agenda, and speaker information can be found below. See you there!

📍Venue:
Microsoft Reactor Sydney
Level 10, 11 York Street Sydney 2000

***
🗓 Agenda:

• 5:30pm: Doors open
• 5:30pm - 6:00pm: Pizza, Drinks, and Networking
• 6:00pm - 6:30pm: Rohan Walia, Senior Solutions Engineer, Confluent
• 6:30pm - 7:00pm: Simon Aubury, Independent Consultant
• 7:00pm - 7:30pm: Additional Networking

***
💡 Speaker:
Rohan Walia, Senior Solutions Engineer, Confluent

Talk:
Enhancing Data Pipelines with Apache Kafka and Flink: Delivering Quality and Trustworthy Data to Data Lakes and Warehouses

Abstract:
In a data-driven world, delivering high-quality, trustworthy data to data lakes and warehouses is crucial but challenging. This session explores how Apache Kafka and Apache Flink can be used together to build scalable, real-time data pipelines. Kafka ensures reliable event-driven data ingestion, while Flink processes, cleans, and validates data in motion to maintain quality and accuracy.We will look into common pains and challenges with data pipelines, including data quality issues, schema evolution, and processing inefficiencies. Additionally, we’ll discuss strategies like Shift Left to make data lakes and warehouses more efficient, improve performance, and reduce costs. This session is ideal for data engineers and architects modernizing their infrastructure.

-----
💡 Speaker:
Simon Aubury, Independent Consultant

Bio:
Simon is a data engineering specialist, or simply a "data geek". He has an extensive background in building large, flexible, highly available distributed data systems.
Today

Talk:
Client Cannot Communicate - Quick Lessons From a Decade of Kafka Consulting

Abstract:
We rightly celebrate the successes of high-profile Kafka projects, but what about the less visible failures? Let's delve into the invaluable lessons learned from these disappointments. Allow me to unveil the hidden truths of avoidable failures—strategies that can compromise your project's success, sabotage your engineering endeavours, and subtly diminish your team's productivity. Drawing from extensive experience across numerous Kafka projects in various sectors such as banking, transportation, retail and product development, I've collected my fair set of scars and lessons from the field that everyone should know. Let me share the hard lessons learned for building awesome streaming applications so you don’t have to ruin your next Kafka project.

***
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 18.
***
If you would like to speak or host our next event please let us know! community@[confluent.io](http://confluent.io/)