Name: IN PERSON! Apache Kafka® x Apache Flink® x Grafana Meetup
Start: 2025-09-30T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-09-30T21:00:00-05:00
Location: Improving

Join us for an Apache Kafka® x Grafana & Friends meetup on Tuesday, September 30th from 6:00pm hosted at Improving!

📍**Venue:**
Improving
5445 Legacy Dr, Suite 100

🗓 **Agenda:**

* 6:00pm: Doors open
* 6:00pm – 6:30pm: Welcome & Food/Drinks, Networking
* 6:30pm - 7:30pm: Kyle Shelton, Senior Observability Architect, Grafana Labs
* 7:30pm - 8:30pm: Additional Q&A and Networking

💡Kyle Shelton, Senior Observability Architect, Grafana Labs

⚾️ *Streaming MLB Data with Confluent Cloud, Flink, and Grafana* ⚾️
Build and monitor a real-time data pipeline using Confluent Cloud's Kafka and Apache Flink, integrated with Grafana for visualization and alerting. We cover Confluent observability fundamentals via the Grafana
integration, including metrics for Kafka clusters, connectors, ksqlDB, and Flink compute pools. Then, a hands-on demo: Fetch live MLB scores from MySportsFeeds API, stream to a Kafka topic, process aggregations with Flink or ksqlDB, sink to PostgreSQL, and visualize in Grafana with score trends, game tables, and pipeline monitoring (throughput, lag alerts). Attendees get practical steps, code samples, and setup guides for streaming solutions.

**Who Should Join?**
Come if you have interest in observability, Grafana, dashboards, or baseball! No previous knowledge required.

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