IN PERSON! Apache Kafka® Meetup (August 2023)

Hello everyone! Join us for an Apache Kafka® meetup on August 22nd from 5:30pm, hosted by Mantel Group in Melbourne!

The address, agenda, and speaker information can be found below. See you there!

📍Venue:

Mantel Group Office

Level 2/452 Flinders St, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia

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🗓 Agenda:

• 5:30pm: Doors open
• 5:30pm - 6:00pm: Pizza, Drinks, and Networking
• 6:00pm - 6:30pm: Prerna Tiwari, Snr Solution Engineer, Confluent
• 6:30pm - 7:00pm: Timothy Findlay, Data Engineer, Aginic
• 7:00pm - 7:30pm: Additional Q&A & Networking

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💡 Speaker:

Prerna Tiwari, Snr Solution Engineer, Confluent

Bio:

Prerna brings 15 years of experience in the software industry, working across various IT consulting and solutions architecture roles. Prerna acquired extensive experience working on digital transformation, multi-cloud, and application modernisation projects with financial, banking, supply chain, and government organisations in Australia and the Asia Pacific. She has a proven track record in the architecture and design of real-time high-volume, performance, and intensive computational solutions using various software and technologies to meet a customer’s strategic, tactical, and operational requirements. Her mission? To come up with innovative, pragmatic solutions to achieve business outcomes.

Talk:

How to architect a mission-critical system using Kafka?

Abstract:

In this talk, Prerna will discuss - How to design a mission-critical event streaming platform to solve the business problem and achieve the desired outcome. With consideration of functionality, performance, scalability, reliability, availability, realistic implementation, optimal cost and adherence to architectural goals and principles.

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💡 Speaker:

Timothy Findlay, Data Engineer at Aginic

Bio:

Timothy is an experienced Data Engineer focusing on Kafka projects and has a broad range of industries he has worked across.

Talk:

Self Service Kafka with Terraform

Abstract:

Explore some practical self-service patterns to enable greater adoption of Kafka in your organisation by enabling business teams to adopt Kafka quickly by reducing the barrier to entry.

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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