June DevOps Galway Meetup

DevOps Galway returns in June with an in-person Meetup in the new Portershed Building on Market Street, Galway City. We are delighted to be joined by David Flanagan (Rawkode Academy) and John Byrne (Confluent).

David Flanagan
David is the founder of the Rawkode Academy and KubeHuddle, open source contributor, and is helping Developers, Platform Engineers, and Infrastructure Operators Level Up with Kubernetes.

He has been developing software professionally for nearly 20 years, starting with embedded systems written in C back in 2004, and has spent that entire time learning the paradigms of different programming languages, including C++, PHP, Java, and Haskell - though more recently preferring to work with Go, Rust, and Pony.

As much as David enjoys writing software, scaling infrastructure, and leading teams, he quickly realised that his passion was helping others learn and be successful. David started presenting at local user groups in 2016, slowly working up to conferences, before eventually moving into a full-time Developer Advocacy position at InfluxData - where he presented and taught workshops at 42 events in 2019.

Presentation: Letting Strangers Destroy My Clusters
Automating and securing your infrastructure is no easy task, but what if the entire point of the infrastructure was to allow strangers to destroy it? In this session, I'll walk through how I automated the provisioning of bare metal Kubernetes clusters with the sole intent of giving access, as securely as I can, to strangers on the internet.

John Byrne (Confluent)
John is a manager in the PIE Tech Labs team within Confluent, where they build Accelerators to help customers leverage the full impact of Kafka within their organisations. This includes accelerators such as field-level encryption and policy-based access. JMS migration strategies and much more exciting and technical challenges. Previously my background was as a data engineer and GIS developer.

Presentation: Kafka Connectors: Bridging Data Streams for Seamless Integration
In today's data-driven world, organizations need efficient connections between diverse systems and data sources. Apache Kafka is a leading platform for managing real-time data streams, and Kafka Connectors enable seamless integration with external systems.
This talk provides a comprehensive overview of Kafka Connectors, emphasizing their significance in data movement and integration. It covers core concepts, architecture, benefits, and use cases, highlighting their ability to handle data ingestion and consumption. Kafka Connectors are fault-tolerant and scalable, making them ideal for critical data pipelines.
The talk explores pre-built connectors for popular databases, cloud services, data lakes, and message queues. Attendees will learn about configuring, deploying, and monitoring Kafka Connectors and how they bridge data streams, enable real-time analytics, and connect disparate systems. Discover the transformative potential of Kafka Connectors and unlock the value of streaming data in an interconnected world.

Pizzas & Refreshments
Pizzas on the night are kindly sponsored by Genesys.

Following the presentations we will relocate to a local bar for some post meetup drinks and chat.