KSQL & Event-Powered Kafka Rails Services

Join us at the Doximity headquarters for the second meetup of 2018 and enjoy our brand new roof deck. Food and drinks will be provided.

5:30 PM: Doors Open, drinks, food, networking

6:15-6:55PM:

• Stella Cotton (Heroku, http://stellacotton.com ) -- So You’ve Got Yourself a Kafka: Event-Powered Rails Services

7:00-7:30PM:

• Hojjat Jafarpour (Confluent, https://www.confluent.io/blog/author/hojjat ) -- KSQL: Streaming SQL Engine for Apache Kafka

7:30-8:00PM: Q&A with speakers, final notes.

So You’ve Got Yourself a Kafka: Event-Powered Rails Services

Stella Cotton is a Ruby engineer at Heroku and co-founder of AndConf and Fog City Ruby. She loves good abstractions and boring technology.

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KSQL: Streaming SQL Engine for Apache Kafka

Hojjat Jafarpour
KSQL Project Lead and Software Engineer, Confluent

Hojjat created the KSQL project at Confluent and is the lead engineer for the project. Before joining Confluent he has worked at NEC Labs, Informatica, Quantcast and Tidemark on various big data management projects. He has a PhD in computer science from UC Irvine where he worked on scalable stream processing and publish/subscribe systems.

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