IN PERSON! Brisbane Apache Kafka® Meetup (September 2023)

Hello everyone! Join us for an Apache Kafka® meetup on September 13th from 5:30pm, hosted by 4impact in Brisbane!

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

📍Venue:

4impact Office

Level 9, 410 Queen St

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🗓 Agenda:

• 5:30pm: Doors open
• 5:30pm - 6:00pm: Pizza, Drinks, and Networking
• 6:00pm - 6:30pm: Jerry Gaines, CTO, 4impact & Andrew Campbell, Program Manager, Virgin Australia.
• 6:30pm - 7:00pm: Just Berkhout, Technical Support Engineer, Confluent
• 7:00pm - 7:30pm: Additional Q&A & Networking

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💡 Speaker:

Jerry Gaines, CTO, 4impact

Bio:

Jerry Gaines is the Chief Technology Officer of 4impact. His background is in enterprise Architect with 20 years’ experience in Enterprise Application Integration.

His focus has been on architecture and design patterns that enable disparate systems to work together in an integrated environment to deliver high-level business value. He has a particular emphasis on asynchronous messaging solutions that keep endpoint systems loosely coupled at design time and run time.

Jerry has been developing object-oriented solutions for his entire professional career. He has worked on large projects with hundreds of team members spread across multiple functional groups and geographic locations, and has worked on and led smaller teams developing in high-velocity, rapid turnaround project delivery environments.

He is a senior practitioner of enterprise-level, scalable agile development methods and processes as well as waterfall software development lifecycles.

Jerry became a highly-valued part of the 4impact team in 2012.

💡 Speaker:

Andrew Campbell, Program Manager, Virgin Australia.

Bio:

Andrew's background is in Project Management spanning a variety

of industries including Aviation, Financial Services, Mining, Wagering and Gaming.

Drawing upon many experiences and team dynamics from different industries, Andrew has a key focus on empowering teams to

facilitate successful technical and business transformation. A Chartered Accountant in a previous life, has a keen eye for numbers and cost control

Talk:

• Mission-Critical Kafka Workloads at Scale
• Virgin Australia’s Kafka journey

Abstract:
How Virgin Australia migrated a series of mission-critical flight status workloads off Oracle SOA and onto Kafka.

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💡 Speaker:

Just Berkhout, Technical Support Engineer, Confluent

Bio:

Just Berkhout is a Technical Support Engineer at Confluent, he spends his time sometimes rescuing, and sometimes enabling his customers across many aspects of Confluent Cloud, Confluent Platform, and Apache Kafka®. He brings experience in cloud computing, application development, and data management from the public sector, the private sector as well as academia. He lives in Brisbane, Australia, but you should also ask him about Tasmania, or Townsville. Or Perth. Or Rotterdam.

Talk:

Experiences with tightly coupled Producer applications: There Be Gremlins

Abstract:

As an elaborate excuse to talk about Kafka Producer capabilities for data durability and low message delivery latency and high throughput, Just Berkhout, a Technical Support Engineer for Confluent by day, will highlight two examples of Producer applications that inadvertently undo some or all of the benefits of decoupling distributed clients from their distributed servers. Kafka producer clients, the Kafka cluster, and the protocols that operate between them are a robust set of tools to set data in motion. At scale, elastically, durably, quickly, enterprisely. Venture too far outside of good practice, though, and your application might miss the sweet spot. This talk introduces two ways to inadvertently create dependencies, introduce tight coupling, and covertly re-implement a request-response pattern in a Kafka producer application. This is a developer and architect topic intended to show some of the power of Kafka producer clients and give the audience ideas on how to adopt it, rather than fight it.

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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 18.

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If you would like to speak or host our next event please let us know! community@confluent.io