CSOSUG: Kafka

AGENDA
6:00 - 6:30 PM - Food, Drinks & Networking
6:30 - 6:35 PM - Announcements
6:35 - 8:00 PM - Speaker
8:00 - 8:10 PM - Door Prize Drawings

TOPIC ABSTRACT
Kafka

In this session, Alex Woolford will walk us through some practical near real-time examples that touch on analytics, systems integration, and machine learning. We'll show you:

• how to build streaming apps using a familiar SQL interface (KSQL)
• how to capture events from external systems
• how to deploy a machine learning model in a stream of events

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY
Alex Woolford

Alex is a systems engineer at Confluent, the company founded by the original creators of Apache Kafka.

He's been working with a diverse set of open source technologies for the past 7 years, specifically Hadoop et. al, StreamSets, and most recently Kafka. Alex maintains a YouTube channel of geeky practical examples which can be found at https://www.youtube.com/c/alexwoolford.

Outside of work he enjoys floating in a tank, playing guitar (very, very badly), and yelling from the sidelines at his kids sporting events.

OUR SPONSORS

Website Sponsor: Gary Hessler
Food Sponsor: Confluent (http://www.confluent.io)
Venue Sponsor: Parsons (http://www.parsons.com)
Door Prize Sponsors: Jetbrains (http://www.jetbrains.com) - Software license (Several products to choose from)
Book Sponsor: OReilly Publishing (http://www.oreilly.com) - Technical books