Our First Kafka Meetup with guest Speaker from Confluent

Join us for a Pre-holiday Apache Kafka meetup on December 19th from 6:00pm - 8:30pm, hosted by Zendesk in Melbourne. The agenda and speaker information can be found below. See you there!

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Agenda:
6:00pm: Doors open
6:00pm - 6:30pm: Networking, Pizza and Drinks
6:30pm - 7:15pm: A Tour of Apache Kafka, Matt Howlett, Confluent
7:15pm - 7:30pm: Additional Q&A
7:30pm - 8:15pm: Additional Networking

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Speaker:
Matt Howlett

Bio:
As an early employee at Confluent, Matt has worked on many of Confluent's open source and enterprise products including Confluent Control Center, Schema Registry, Rest Proxy and Apache Kafka client libraries in various languages. Prior to joining Confluent, Matt spent many years developing materials tracking and optimization systems for large mining companies in Australia. His first exposure to distributed systems was in the computer games industry where he worked on the server of a massively multiplayer online game engine.

Title:
A Tour of Apache Kafka

Abstract:
Apache Kafka is a scalable streaming platform that forms a key part of the infrastructure at many companies including Netflix, Walmart, Uber, Goldman Sachs and LinkedIn. In this talk, Matt will give a technical overview of Kafka and how it differs from traditional messaging systems. He will then walk through some typical use cases including how Kafka can be used as a backbone for building fault tolerant micro-services, how it can be used to connect applications and data stores together at scale, and how to processing large quantities of data in real time using the Kafka Streams API and KSQL.

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Special thanks to Zendesk 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.