The Austin Python Meetup Monthly Meetup

This is a Hybrid event both in-person and virtual. The in-person event is hosted at Antler downtown Austin.
Address:
522 Congress Avenue Suite 400, Austin
The entrance is off of 6th street between the Velvet Taco and Ruth's Chris, the same building where we used to attend the meetup at BlackLocus.

Title: Apache Kafka

On day one of Green Bay Packers’ training camp each season, legendary coach Vince Lombardi stood before his team holding a “pigskin” and said: “Gentlemen, THIS is a football.” This highlights the importance of the basic fundamentals of any subject. In an ecosystem like Apache Kafka, it’s imperative that we understand the pieces and parts that compose this “highly scalable event streaming platform.” In this session, let’s (re)introduce ourselves to the components of Apache Kafka. We’ll start with terminology like topics, partitions, producers and consumers - basic “blocking and tackling.” Along the way we’ll delve into how each is related and significant to the others. We’ll also take a high-level look at “special teams” aspects of the Apache Kafka ecosystem for data governance, connecting to external systems, and event processing.

I’m no Vince Lombardi. But you’ll walk away from this session with a basic understanding of how Kafka does what it does, as well as a curiosity to explore Kafka as a useful and powerful tool in your application architecture.

Speaker Bio

Sandon Jacobs is a Senior Developer Advocate at Confluent - helping developers in their journey with data streaming technologies, specifically Apache Kafka and Apache Flink

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Sponsors:

Antler
Antler works with founders through our signature founder residency, adding value immediately, and taking no equity up front. We receive over 160,000 applications each year to build companies with us, and have grown to 18 funds with residencies in 30 cities around the globe. Founders also have the opportunity to pitch our Investment Committee to receive an up to $500K investment, allowing them to build for 12-18 months rather than attempting to raise before they have real traction.

Amicus
Our sponsor Amicus is a team of specialist Python recruiters who are passionate about developing and nurturing the Python community as well as placing developers in their dream roles. They're providing food and beverages for this event, please thank them for their support! (https://www.amicusjobs.com/community)

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