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Upcoming events (1)
See all- IN PERSON! Apache Kafka® Meetup Gurgaon- Aug 2025Epam systems India Private Limited, Gurugram
Hello everyone! Join us for an IN PERSON Apache Kafka® meetup on August 2nd from 11 am, hosted by EPAM in Gurgaon!
📍 Venue:
EPAM Systems India PVT LTD.1st (First) Floor of Block 2, DLF Downtown, Commercial Site, Block - V, DLF City,
Phase - I, Sector 25A, Gurugram,
Haryana 120002 India***
Agenda:- 11:00am - 11:10am: Registration & Welcome
- 11:10am - 11:50am: Chirag Wadhwa, Software Engineer, Confluent
- 11:50am - 12:30pm: TBC
- 12:30pm - 13:30pm: Lunch
If you would like to speak at or host a meetup please let us know! community@confluent.io
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💡 Speaker:
Chirag Wadhwa, Software Engineer, ConfluentTalk:
Deep Dive into Kafka's Group Coordinator and the Coordinator Runtime FrameworkAbstract:
Kafka's Group Coordinator is the unsung hero behind consumer group rebalancing, offset tracking, and now, evolving features like shared consumption models. But how does it all work under the hood?In this talk, we’ll explore the internals of the Group Coordinator in Apache Kafka, with a strong emphasis on the Coordinator Runtime framework—a new abstraction introduced to unify and modularize coordinator implementations within brokers.
We’ll walk through:- The lifecycle of a consumer group,
- How the Group Coordinator handles membership, heartbeats, and rebalances,
- The architecture of the CoordinatorRuntime and CoordinatorPartition classes,
- How metadata like group state and offsets is persisted in internal topics such as `__consumer_offsets`,
- And how these components ensure durability and fault tolerance at scale.
This session is ideal for engineers looking to deepen their understanding of Kafka internals, especially those interested in the mechanics of consumer group management and metadata persistence. Whether you’re running Kafka in production or contributing to its ecosystem, this talk will illuminate the critical coordinator paths that keep your clients connected and your data consistent.
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TBCTalk:
TBCAbstract:
TBC***
DISCLAIMER
BY ATTENDING THIS EVENT IN PERSON, you acknowledge that risk includes possible exposure to and illness from infectious diseases including COVID-19, and accept responsibility for this, if it occurs.
As the classroom is a mask-on setting, please be reminded that masks should still be worn at all times unless actively eating or drinking
NOTE: We are unable to cater for any attendees under the age of 18.
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