Sydney Data Engineering Meetup, April Edition

IAG have kindly offered to host us this month at their Darling Park offices.

1st Presenters: Simon Aubury & Kieran Clulow
Turning the wheel - Streaming 4.4 billion events with Apache Kafka
Learnings from building a single view of the customer for IAG. Realtime customer, policy and vehicle information using Apache Kafka and MongoDB

2nd Speaker: Nikita Sharma
From newbie to Data Engineer
My journey and learnings through data engineering. A getting started talk for beginner data engineers.
Nikita is pursuing Masters of Data Science at UTS

3rd Speaker: Grant Ingersoll, CTO and co-founder of Lucidworks

Search as the new Data Warehouse
Examine the mapping of search engine capabilities onto modern data warehousing and data
lake needs and weigh the pros and cons of such an approach by looking at use cases and
capabilities of open source engines like Apache Solr and Elasticsearch.

Grant Ingersoll is the CTO and co-founder of Lucidworks as well as an active member of the Lucene community – a Lucene and Solr committer, co-founder of the Apache Mahout machine learning project, and a long standing member of the Apache Software Foundation.
Grant is also the co-author of “Taming Text” from Manning Publications.

Doors will open at 6pm - remember to bring along some great questions!