IN-PERSON:Kafka Observability and A Kafka Producer’s Request

Hello Streamers!

Join us for an IN PERSON Apache Kafka® meetup on Thursday, September 26th from 5:30 pm, hosted by our friends at meshIQ and Albertson's!

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📍 Venue:
Albertsons Companies Corporate Office
1st Floor
6080 Tennyson Pkwy Suite 300
Plano, TX 75024

***🗓 Agenda:
5:30pm - 6:00pm: Doors Open, Networking, Pizza and Drinks
6:00pm - 6:50pm: Albert Mavashev, CTO, meshIQ
6:50pm - 7:30pm: Danica Fine, Staff Developer Advocate, Confluent
7:30pm - 8:00pm: More networking, Q&A
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💡 Speaker One:
Albert Mavashev, CTO, meshIQ

Title of Talk:
Kafka Observability - Reducing Outages and Downtime Across the Messaging Environment

Abstract:
A rapidly growing number of applications rely on Kafka for high-throughout, reliable event streams in use cases ranging from clickstream analysis to application integration and real-time analytics on data in motion. As enterprise adoption of Kafka continues to grow, 90% of implementations require Kafka to work with other messaging technologies such IBM MQ, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, and others.
How can you achieve end-to-end visibility and monitoring for transactions spanning multiple technology stacks? In this talk, we will discuss ways to achieve observability and management of complex messaging and streaming infrastructures to deliver zero downtime, deliver application message flow topologies and data lineage.

Bio:
As meshIQ’s CTO, Albert turns ideas into real-world solutions. Albert’s work specialties are Application Performance, Performance Measurement & Practices, Streaming Analytics @ Scale, Clustered Computing, Big+Fast Data, Transaction Analytics, Complex Event Processing (CEP), Middleware, IT Service Management, Ops & DevOps. He is passionate about Blockchain, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Libra, digital tokens/assets, and building & scaling digital de-centralized economies.-----
💡 Speaker Two:
Danica Fine, Staff Developer Advocate, Confluent

Title of Talk:
A Kafka Producer’s Request: Or, There and Back Again

Abstract:
Do you know how your data moves into your Apache Kafka® instance? From the programmer’s point of view, it’s relatively simple. But under the hood, writing to Kafka is a complex process with a fascinating life cycle that’s worth understanding.

Anytime you call producer.send(), those calls are translated into low-level requests which are sent along to the brokers for processing. In this session, we’ll dive into the world of Kafka producers to follow a request from an initial call to send(), all the way to disk, and back to the client via the broker’s final response. Along the way, we’ll explore a number of client and broker configurations that affect how these requests are handled and discuss the metrics that you can monitor to help you to keep track of every stage of the request life cycle.

By the end of this session, you’ll know the ins and outs of the read and write requests that your Kafka clients make, making your next debugging or performance analysis session a breeze.

Bio:
Danica Fine is a Staff Developer Advocate at Confluent where she helps others get the most out of their event-driven pipelines. Prior to this role, she served as a software engineer on a streaming infrastructure team at Bloomberg where she predominantly worked on Kafka Streams- and Kafka Connect-based projects. Her expertise in streaming systems has taken her to a number of conferences and speaking engagements over the years, giving her the chance to express her love of Kafka to anyone who will listen. Danica is committed to increasing diversity in the technical community and actively serves as a mentor to a number of women in tech. She can be found on Twitter, tweeting about tech, plants, and baking @TheDanicaFine.

***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.