IN PERSON! Apache Kafka® & Apache Druid®

Hello everyone! We're very excited to be hosting an IN-PERSON meetup in Sydney. We look forward to seeing you there!

Important: The current covid policies for Microsoft include wearing a mask on entry, signing in with the Service NSW app, and showing a vaccine passport on entry.

Venue:
Microsoft reactor Sydney
Level 10, 11-33 York Street Sydney

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Agenda:

• 5:30pm: Doors open
• 5:30pm - 6:00pm: Pizza, Drinks and Networking
• 6:00pm - 6:30pm: Johnny Mirza, Senior Solutions Engineer, Confluent
• 6:30pm - 7:00pm: Sergio Ferragut, Sr. Developer Advocate, Imply
• 7:00pm - 7:30pm - Additional Q&A & Networking

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Speaker:
Johnny Mirza, Senior Solutions Engineer, Confluent

Bio:
Johnny has a strong technical background supporting the Telco, Media, Insurance and Transport industry verticals. Johnny comes from a pre-sales solutions engineering background and has a passion for architectures of public cloud and on-premise infrastructure, service assurance and monitoring platforms, and working with open source technologies.

Talk:
How Confluent Cloud uses Apache Druid

Abstract:
Confluent Cloud and specifically the Health+ feature is built on Apache Druid providing key metrics to customers on their Kafka cluster usage, metrics etc.. while also performing real-time alerting for any critical performance issues. Health+ is a feature that allows monitoring of Confluent on-premise instance with a the Confluent Cloud based service.

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Speaker:
Sergio Ferragut, Sr. Developer Advocate, Imply

Bio:
Sergio Ferragut is a database veteran turned Developer Advocate at Imply. His experience includes 16 years at Teradata in professional services and engineering roles. He has direct experience in building analytics applications spanning the retail, supply chain, pricing optimization, and IoT spaces. Sergio has worked at multiple technology start-ups including APL and Splice Machine where he helped guide product design and field messaging.

Talk:
Upstream Processing with Apache Kafka for Immediate Intelligence with Apache Druid

Abstract:
Applications built with Apache Druid databases are revolutionary: a real-time event hub and processor such as Apache Kafka is an essential component that keeps the user up-to-date and the statistics meaningful. Sergio Ferragut talks about the importance of fast upstream processing and delivery to modern “immediate intelligence” applications, drilling into some examples of work done upstream of Apache Druid.

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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.
NOTE: We are unable to cater for any attendees under the age of 18.

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If you would like to speak or host our next event please let us know! community@confluent.io