Folks, THIS is Apache Kafka®

Hello Streamers!

You are invited to attend a meetup on Thursday, October 17th starting at 5:30pm EDT hosted by our friends at Charlotte Java User meetup group!

***PLEASE NOTE, VERY IMPORTANT***: If you are interested to attend this meetup, please register here. Registration for this meetup will not be open on this page, please visit the link below:
https://www.meetup.com/charlotte-java-developers-meetup/events/303752084

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Agenda:
5:30pm – 6:00pm: Networking, food and drinks
6:00pm – 7:00pm: Talk session
7:00pm – 7:30pm: More networking

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Speaker:
Sandon Jacobs, Senior Developer Advocate, Confluent

Title of Talk:
Folks, THIS is Apache Kafka®

Abstract:
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.

Bio:
Sandon Jacobs is a software engineer and avid golfer. He is a developer advocate at Confluent, where we're creating the foundational platform for data-in-motion.
Twitter: @SandonJacobs
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/sandonjacobs
GitHub: https://github.com/sandonleejacobs and https://github.com/sandonjacobs

Parking
There are 2 entrances for The Railyard parking deck – 1 on Bland Street and 1 on Winona Street. There are other public parking spaces around the area.

Venue directions
Take the stairs or elevator down to the 1st floor.
Come in through the lobby and take the elevator banks on the South Tower to the 6th floor.
The South Tower elevators are located on the STIR side of The RailYard, opposed to the side with North Italia and Rhino Market & Deli
When you arrive on the 6th floor, it will take you straight to our reception area.
If there is no one to assist you, please ring the Amazon doorbell located on the reception desk.

***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.As the classroom is a mask-on setting, please be reminded that masks should still be worn at all times unless actively eating or drinkingNOTE: We are unable to cater for any attendees under the age of 18.