VIRTUAL: Apache Flink® Meetup

Join us for an Apache Flink® VIRTUAL meetup on Thursday, September 26th from 6:00 pm CEST.

📍 Zoom [Online]

🗓 Agenda:

• 6:00pm - 6:10pm: Welcome, Networking
• 6:10pm - 6:35pm: Robert Metzger, Staff Software Engineer II, Confluent (20mins talk, followed by Q&A)
• 6:35pm - 7:00pm: Raghav Nehru, Director & Practitioner, Platformatory (20mins talk, followed by Q&A)
• 7:00pm - 7:15pm: Networking & Hangout

Have follow-up questions afterward? Log in to Slack or Join our Forum (https://www.confluent.io/community/ask-the-community) to ask any follow-up questions!

💡 Speaker One (6:10 pm):
Robert Metzger, Staff Software Engineer II, Confluent

Title:
Introduction to Stateful Stream Processing with Apache Flink

Abstract:
Stream Processing has evolved quickly in a short time: only a few years ago, stream processing was mostly simple real-time aggregations with limited throughput and consistency. Today, many stream processing applications have sophisticated business logic, strict correctness guarantees, high performance, low latency, and maintain terabytes of state without databases. Stream processing frameworks also abstract a lot of the low-level details away, such as routing the data streams, taking care of concurrent executions, and handling various failure scenarios while ensuring correctness.

This talk will give an introduction into Apache Flink, one of the most advanced open source stream processors that powers applications in Netflix, Uber, and Alibaba among others. In particular, we will go through the use cases that Flink was designed for, explain concepts like stateful and event-time stream processing, and discuss Flink's APIs and ecosystem.

Bio:
Robert Metzger is a Staff Software Engineer at Confluent, working on products based on Apache Flink. Besides this role, he’s a committer and the PMC member at the Apache Flink project.

He has co-created Flink and contributed to many core components of the project over the years. He previously co-founded and successfully exited data Artisans (now Ververica), the company that initially created and commercialised Flink.

Robert Metzger is frequently speaking and writing about Flink, stream processing and related technologies.

💡 Speaker Two (6:35 pm):
Raghav Nehru, Director & Practitioner, Platformatory

Title:
Data pipelines with Apache Flink

Abstract:
This talk walks through the process of creating real-time data pipelines using Flink. It introduces how to connect Flink with various data sources (like Kafka, or relational databases), focusing on transforming and enriching data streams. This talk is useful for understanding how Flink integrates with other components in a typical data processing pipeline.

Bio: Raghav is a technologist and the Director of Platformatory LLC, based in Vancouver, Canada. Known for his hands-on-keyboard approach coupled with many years of experience in designing and implementing Distributed Systems, Desktop applications, Systems Management applications, and Web services. Outside of tech, he enjoys being the coach for his son who plays Table Tennis.

Online Meetup Etiquette

• Please hold your questions until the end of the presentation or use the zoom chat during!
• Please arrive on time as zoom meetings can become locked for many reasons (though if you get locked out a recording will be available, but you may have to wait a little while for it!)
• Important note: If Zoom asks for a password to join please use 'kafka'

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