IN PERSON! Apache Kafka® Meetup Noida - Mar 2026

Hello everyone! Join us for an IN PERSON Apache Kafka® meetup on Mar 21 from 10:30 am, hosted by OpsTree Global!

📍 Venue:
3rd Floor, Tirupati AKC Building
01-A, Raipur Khadar, Sector 126
Noida, Uttar Pradesh – 201313

Google Location:
https://g.co/kgs/xQNBqYn

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Agenda:

• 10:30am - 10:40am: Registration & Welcome
• 10:40am - 11:20am: Deepak Nishad, DevOps Specialist, OpsTree
• 11:20am - 12:00pm: Abhishek Jaiswal, Solutions Engineer, Confluent
• 12:00pm - 12:10pm: Break
• 12:10pm - 12:50pm: Prabhanshu Chauhan, Customer Success Technical Architect, Confluent
• 12:50pm - 14:00pm: Lunch

If you would like to speak at or host a meetup please let us know! community@confluent.io

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💡 Speaker:
Abhishek Jaiswal, Solutions Engineer, Confluent

Talk:
Kafka Unplugged: From Basics to Real-World Streaming

Abstract:
Kafka powers the real-time data pipelines behind companies like LinkedIn, Netflix, and Uber—but many engineers only interact with it through a few configs and producers/consumers. In this session, we’ll start with Kafka 101 to understand the core building blocks, then move into Kafka 201 where we explore how real production systems handle scaling, ordering, consumer groups, and event-driven architecture patterns. By the end, you’ll not only understand how Kafka works, but how to design systems that use it effectively in the real world.

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💡 Speaker:
Prabhanshu Chauhan, Customer Success Technical Architect, Confluent

Talk:
High-Throughput, Low-Latency: Practical Performance Tuning for Apache Kafka in Production

Abstract:
This talk dives deep into performance tuning Apache Kafka for real-world, high-throughput workloads. We’ll walk through how to reason about end-to-end latency and throughput, then map those requirements to concrete broker, topic, and client configurations. Using practical examples and benchmarks, we’ll cover tuning batch sizes, compression, acks, linger, and max in-flight requests on producers; fetch, prefetch, and concurrency on consumers; and replication, partitions, page cache, and disk on brokers. We’ll also discuss common anti-patterns that silently kill performance, how to interpret key metrics in JMX / client metrics, and a simple methodology for running load tests and iterating safely in production
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💡 Speaker:
Deepak Nishad, DevOps Specialist, OpsTree

Talk:
Designing and Running a Highly Resilient Kafka on Kubernetes

Abstract:
Running Apache Kafka on Kubernetes promises operational simplicity, but production reality often tells a different story. Node evictions, storage failures, network partitions, and misconfigured scheduling can silently undermine your cluster's durability guarantees long before a single message is lost.
In this session, we go beyond the basics of deployment to focus on what it takes to keep Kafka running reliably and safely under real-world conditions. We will examine the full failure surface of a Kubernetes-based Kafka cluster and share architectural strategies to design against these risks.
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If you would like to speak or host our next event please let us know! community@confluent.io