IN PERSON! Brisbane Apache Kafka® Meetup (May 2024)

Hello everyone! Join us for an Apache Kafka® meetup on May 23rd from 5:30pm, hosted by 4impact in Brisbane!

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

📍Venue:
Level 2, 410 Queen St

Note: This event will be hosted by 4impact on Level 2 (event space), 410 Queen St, not the 4impact Offices on Level 9

410 Queen St is located corner Wharf St.
Transport and Parking:
Central Station is a short walk, with Multiple Bus stops nearby.
480 Queen St [Secure Carparking] Night rate Flat $10* after 5pm
Cathedral Square [Secure Carparking] Night rate Flat $5* after 5pm
66 Eagle St (Central Plaza 2) [Wilson Parking] Night rate Flat $7* after 5pm
*Online bookings subject to change
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🗓 Agenda:

• 5:30pm: Doors open
• 5:30pm - 6:00pm: Pizza, Drinks, and Networking
• 6:00pm - 6:45pm: Jordan Henderson, Software Engineer - Automation, Entain
• 6:45pm - 7:15pm: Badai Aqrandista, Senior Software Engineer II, Confluent
• 7:15pm - 7:30pm: Additional Q&A & Networking

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💡 Speaker:
Jordan Henderson, Software Engineer - Automation, Entain

Bio:
I have been with high volume and business critical cloud-based applications and infrastructure since 2015, spanning a wide variety of platforms such as Salesforce, AWS and Confluent. I have worked directly with Confluent platform since 2023 and have a good knowledge of Snowflake and other enterprise databases, pipelines, technologies and their commercial applications.

Talk:
Surviving CDC Connector Failures with Confluent Cloud

Abstract:
When data consistency and uptime is critical, it is essential to ensure your Confluent producers and consumers are configured to survive a disaster situation. This session is a quick deep dive into how connectors and services can be set up to survive worst case scenarios, and some of the techniques that can help avoid the nightmare of a lengthy support case.

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💡 Speaker:
Badai Aqrandista, Senior Software Engineer II, Confluent

Bio:
Badai has been supporting applications on Linux/Unix platform since 2004, ranging from hotel booking engine, telecommunication billing, mining equipment monitoring, and now Apache Kafka® and its ecosystems.

Talk:
Kafka performance tuning basics

Abstract:
In this session I will be discussing about Kafka performance. First, I will discuss the tools we can use to test Kafka performance. Then we will discuss about configurations in Kafka brokers and clients that we can tune and their impacts.

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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