IN PERSON! Apache Kafka® Meetup Noida - July 2026

Hello everyone! Join us for an IN PERSON Apache Kafka® meetup on July 11th 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 by host, Rajneesh Yadav from OpsTree
• 10:40am - 11:20am: Deepak Nishad, DevOps Specialist, OpsTree
• 11:20am - 12:00pm: Abhinav Kapoor, Principal Engineer, Nagarro
• 12:00pm - 12:10pm: Break
• 12:10pm - 12:50pm: Luv Gupta, Senior Technology 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:
Deepak Nishad, DevOps Specialist, OpsTree

Talk:
Zero-Trust Kafka: Enforcing mTLS, RBAC, and High Availability for Mission-Critical Banking Systems

Abstract:
Financial institutions require more than just a functional Kafka deployment—they require a platform that satisfies strict security, compliance, and availability mandates. In this talk, I will share the architecture, implementation challenges, and operational lessons learned while building a Zero-Trust Confluent Platform deployment for a banking workload.

The session covers mutual TLS authentication, LDAP-backed RBAC, MDS token-based authorization, principal mapping, and high-availability design considerations. I will also walk through several real-world troubleshooting scenarios, including authentication failures, JAAS configuration issues, and internal topic replication validation that can prevent critical platform services from starting.
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💡 Speaker:
Abhinav Kapoor, Principal Engineer, Nagarro

Talk:
Kafka Keeps Its Promises. But does Your Architecture?
From Delivery Guarantees to Business Guarantees with Kafka

Abstract:
Kafka provides some of the strongest reliability guarantees available in modern distributed systems. With idempotent producers, atomic transactions, and exactly-once processing, it is easy to believe that reliable messaging automatically leads to reliable business systems.
But what happens after Kafka has kept every promise it made?
Production systems still lose events, process payments twice, send duplicate notifications, and end up in inconsistent states. The root cause often lies not in Kafka itself, but in the gap between delivery guarantees and business guarantees.

In this session, we'll explore why systems can still fail even when Kafka behaves exactly as designed. Through real-world failure scenarios and examples, we'll examine common pitfalls in event-driven architectures and discuss proven patterns. Attendees will leave with a practical framework for designing event-driven systems that remain correct and trustworthy in the face of real-world failures.

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💡 Speaker:
Luv Gupta, Senior Technology Architect, Confluent

Talk:
Designing Multi-Region Kafka: Active-Active vs Active-Passive (and Why One Might Hurt You More)

Abstract:
Everyone wants a “global, highly available” Kafka setup—until they actually try to build one. Multi-region Kafka sounds great on paper, but the moment you go beyond a single cluster, things get messy: duplicate events, broken ordering, split-brain scenarios, and painful failovers.
In this session, we cut through the hype around Active-Active and Active-Passive architectures and talk about what really happens in production. When does Active-Active actually make sense—and when is it just unnecessary complexity? Why do most teams overestimate their need for it? And what trade-offs are you silently accepting around consistency, latency, and operational overhead?
We’ll walk through real-world patterns using tools like Cluster Linking and MirrorMaker, highlight common failure modes, and share hard-earned lessons from systems that didn’t behave the way they were designed.
If you’re thinking about going multi-region with Kafka, this talk might save you from a very expensive mistake.

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