Intro to Kafka

Step into the world of real-time data streaming with our "Intro to Kafka" workshop. This event is tailored for developers, data engineers, and IT professionals who want to gain a foundational understanding of Apache Kafka, the powerful open-source platform for building scalable, event-driven applications.

During this hands-on session, participants will:

Learn Kafka Fundamentals: Dive into the core concepts of Kafka, including topics, partitions, producers, and consumers, to understand how data streams are managed and processed in real-time.

Why is Kafka used so much ?: Discover how Kafka is utilized in various industries, from powering real-time analytics to supporting microservices architectures, and how it can be applied to your own projects.

what is Kafka connect, Kafka kraft, ksql and schema registry: 

By the end of this workshop, you’ll have a solid foundation in Kafka, equipping you with the knowledge and skills to start implementing real-time data solutions.

This event is ideal for developers, data engineers, architects, and anyone interested in understanding the principles of real-time data streaming and event-driven systems.

Agenda

6:00 PM: Doors open

6:00 PM: Networking

6:30 PM: Intro Kafka by Gilles

7:30 PM: Q&A, Food&Drink, networking

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Speaker

Gilles Philippart - Confluent (Software Practice Lead)

Gilles works at Confluent as a Software Practice Lead and has over twenty years of experience in the financial sector, primarily developing systems for investment banks. In recent times, he served as a Principal Engineer at a FinTech company, where he built a platform that offers loans to small and medium businesses in the blink of an eye. Through this work, he became a proponent of event-driv…

Hosted By

Thierry Njike, Organizer

Engineer in AI and decision hand, online degree in Data analysis.
Very first GDSC lead in Belgium,
I am interested in AI/ML, Cloud computing, Flutter, Web technologies, and competitive programming.
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Leolin kamto, Organizer

Head of External Relations and Cooperation

Leandro C, Organizer

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Arnaud Derison, Organizer

Andrea Gomez, Organizer

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Partners

Polytech Mons (https://web.umons.ac.be/fpms/fr/)

GDSC University of Mons-Hainaut (https://gdsc.community.dev/university-of-mons-hainaut/)

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