Antwerp Meetup with Elastic and Imply

We’re happy to announce our next Elastic meetup, together with Imply on October 8th in Antwerp. The meetup will start at 18.00, at Friday Cowork.

Location: Friday Cowork, Lange Leemstraat 358B, Antwerp (close to Berchem station)

Agenda:
18:00 - 18:45 : Arrival, drinks and pizza
18:45 - 19:30 : Powering real-time analytics applications using the open-source trio: Kafka, Flink and Druid
19:30 - 20:15 : Identifying Performance Bottlenecks with RUM, OTel and Elastic
20:15 - 20:30 : Wrap up

Talks:
Powering real-time analytics applications using the open-source trio: Kafka, Flink and Druid
In today’s data-driven world, making real-time decisions can be the edge that sets you apart from competition. This session will explore how to leverage open-source technologies—Kafka, Flink, and Druid—to build robust, scalable real-time analytics pipelines. We’ll start with key use cases where companies are using this powerful trio to turn event streams into actionable insights. You'll learn how Kafka acts as the backbone of data streaming, how Flink processes streams with low-latency transformations, and how Druid enables fast, interactive analytics at scale. We’ll also discuss why it is important to use the right tool for the job. Whether you're looking to build new real-time applications or enhance existing ones to drive actionable intelligence, this session will provide the foundational knowledge and practical use cases to help you get started.

Speaker: Kyle Hoondert, Imply

Identifying Performance Bottlenecks with RUM, OTel and Elastic
Building beloved user applications is a challenging yet rewarding pursuit for us building software today. The addition of metrics and traces in applications is often an afterthought or in response to a lack of information on a severe outage that left us scratching our heads for far too long.But we need more diagnostic information for front-end web applications as well as backend services. In this talk, we’ll cover RUM, or Real User Monitoring Agents, and how, combined with OpenTelemetry (OTel) and Elastic, we can identify bottlenecks and poor user experience in our applications.

Speaker: Carly Richmond and Piotr Przybyl, Elastic