DSG TechTalkThursday: PGH's 1st Kafka Meetup - Fotios Filiacouris from Confluent

We are partnering with the Pittsburgh Apache Kafka® Meetup by Confluent to host an Apache Kafka meetup on December 6th from 6:00pm, hosted by Dick's Sporting Goods. The address, agenda and speaker information can be found below. See you there!

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Agenda:
6:00pm: Doors open
6:00pm - 6:30pm: Open House - Pizza & Beverages
6:30pm - 6:35pm: Dick's Sporting Goods Welcome
6:35pm - 7:35pm: Fotios Filiacouris, Senior Systems Engineer at Confluent
7:35pm - 8:30pm: Additional Q&A and Networking
8:30pm: Doors closed

Featured Speaker: Fotios Filiacouris

Bio:
Fotios Filacouris is a senior systems engineer at Confluent.

Foti has spent the better parts of his career focusing on Open Source technology, with experience varying from NoSQL, Big Data and traditional RDBMS technologies.

Recently Foti has focused on Distributed Systems, with knowledge and expertise Architecting for Fortune 500 organizations.

Foti has experience speaking to some of the largest Java Groups in the world, as well as Open Source Meetup groups all over the United States. Foti is based out of greater NYC.

“I help people understand complex concepts in distributed technology, varying from Microservice oriented architectures to de-coupling services to your more traditional monolith migrations".

Title:
Beyond Microservices: Streams, State, and Scalability

Abstract:
Did you ever want to understand how to properly build distributed, scalable architectures? Are you tired of having to provision full instances of your application every time you need to scale? In this talk, we will take a closer look at Apache Kafka and how easily we can implement microservice architectures utilizing the platform.

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