Inaugural Kafka Meetup

To jumpstart the group, Zendesk engineers are going to share their usage of Kafka in production.

Let us know in the comments if there is interest in a short intro to Kafka to precede the talks.

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Agenda:
6:30pm - 6:50pm: Andrei Balcanasu - Introduction to Maxwell
6:50pm - 7:30pm: Sergio Nunes - Kafka used at scale to deliver real-time notifications
7:30pm - 8pm: Pizza, Beer and Networking

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Speaker:
Andrei Balcanasu - @andreionut (https://twitter.com/andreionut)

Bio:
Andrei Balcanasu is a Senior Infrastructure Engineer for Zendesk. He's been working on a high-throughput event store system for the last 2 years where Kafka is at it’s core.

Title:
Introduction to Maxwell

Abstract:
Maxwell is an application that reads MySQL binlogs and writes row updates to Kafka as JSON. Maxwell has a low operational bar and produces a consistent, easy to ingest stream of updates. Common use cases include ETL, cache building/expiring, metrics collection, and search indexing.In the last year Maxwell is at the heart of Zendesk’s internal push towards a microservices world.

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Speaker:
Sergio Nunes

Bio:
Sergio joined Zendesk as an Infrastructure Engineer. In Zendesk he had the opportunity to get involved with streaming platforms dealing with a high throughput of data. He is currently working on a scalable backend system for delivering near real-time notifications to mobile users.

Title:
Kafka used at scale to deliver real-time notifications

Abstract:
In this talk, we're going to see how Kafka was a really good fit to build a system that needs to process a really high throughput of database events and deliver push notifications in a real-time fashion. We're also going to cover some of the challenges found while dealing with Kafka and possible solutions to overcome them.

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Special thanks to Zendesk (https://zendesk.com) who are hosting us for this event.

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NOTE: We are unable to cater for any attendees under the age of 18. Please do not sign up for this event if you are under 18.