IN PERSON! Apache Kafka® Meetup Bangalore- Jan 2025

Hello everyone! Join us for an IN PERSON Apache Kafka® meetup on Jan 18th from 10:00AM, hosted by Microsoft Reactor in Bangalore!

If you are interested in speaking, please fill out the form here!

📍 Venue:
Vigyan 1st floor, 9, Lavelle Road, Ashok Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560001

***IMPORTANT***

• Visitors are requested to park their vehicles only at designated parking area as directed by the team and as per availability only.
• Yellow board vehicles are not permitted to park inside the premises.
• All visitors need to obtain “Visitors Badge” by verifying their government id like Aadhar card, Driving license or any other suitable Govt id at respective building reception and need to be escorted throughout their stay in Microsoft premises.
• Visitors should return the temporary visitor pass to the receptionist at the end of their visit. Visitors must abide by the "No Photography" & "No Smoking" policies on Microsoft premises
• Visitor should have a soft copy of their covid vaccine certificate on their mobile devices.

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Agenda:

• 10:00- 10:10: Welcome and Introduction
• 10:10- 10:50: Jayesh Asrani , Solutions Architect StarTree
• 10:50-11:30: Samrat Deb, Senior Software Engineer, Confluent
• 11:30- 12:10: Zameer Fouzan, Lead Developer Relations Engineer, New Relic
• 12:10- 13:00: Lunch

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💡 Speaker:
Jayesh Asrani, Solutions Architect StarTree

Talk:
Empowering AI Agents with Real-Time Insights: From Streams to Smarter Actions

Abstract:
In this session we will be going through:
⁠Intro to Real time Analytics - Pinot ,
•⁠ ⁠Intro to RAG , Compound AI Systems
•⁠ ⁠Integration of AI agents to Streaming , Real time systems and why they are necessary
•⁠ ⁠Discussion of the Real world use-cases like Brand Sentiment Analysis , Travel agent bots
•⁠ ⁠Demo on the integration Kafka —> Pinot —> AI agent
•⁠ ⁠The architecture of an pipeline that brings together real-time data ingestion, analytics intelligent retrieval systems, and AI models
•⁠ ⁠How can users integrate RAG, AI agents to augment real-time decision-making with contextually relevant information
•⁠ ⁠Real-world use cases

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💡 Speaker:
Samrat Deb, Senior Software Engineer, Confluent

Talk:
Intro to Checkpointing and Savepointing in Apache Flink

Abstract:
Know about State Management in Apache Flink with the focus of Checkpointing and Savepoint under the hood.

• Understand Flink State clearly.
• Go deeper into the Insight of Fault Tolerant checkpoint and how it integrates with RocksDB.
• An overview on the overall concept of Savepoints and its use cases.

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💡 Speaker:
Zameer Fouzan, Lead Developer Relations Engineer, New Relic

Talk:
Unlocking Observability in Apache Kafka-Based Systems with OpenTelemetry

Abstract:
Distributed tracing is essential for tracking requests across micro-services. But when it comes to Kafka’s decoupled producers, consumers, and asynchronous processes, tracing a transaction from start to finish isn’t always straightforward.

In this talk, we will go through how to monitor Kafka-based applications using distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry. By leveraging tools like Jaeger and New Relic, we’ll uncover how to gain a full view of your micro-services, even in the face of Apache Kafka’s asynchronous nature. we’ll also walk through both automatic and manual instrumentation to capture rich telemetry.