Apache Kafka Meetup with Walmart Labs and Confluent

Join us to learn more about Kafka’s Streams API on January 18th from 6:00pm - 8:30pm, hosted by Walmart Labs in Sunnyvale. The address is 680 W California Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94086. Please see the agenda and speaker information below. See you there!

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Meeting Number: 745 374 661

Meeting Password: 1111

Agenda

6:00pm: Doors open

6:00pm - 6:30pm: Networking (food and beverages provided)

6:30pm - 7:15pm: Presentation #1: Jay Kreps, Confluent

7:15pm - 7:45pm: Presentation #2: Anil Kumar, Walmart Labs

7:45pm - 8:30pm: Additional Q&A and Networking

First Talk

Speaker: Jay Kreps, co-founder and CEO, Confluent

Bio: Jay Kreps is the CEO of Confluent, Inc., a company backing the popular Apache Kafka streaming platform. Prior to founding Confluent, he was formerly the lead architect for data infrastructure at LinkedIn. He is among the original authors of several open source projects including Project Voldemort (a key-value store), Apache Kafka (a streaming platform) and Apache Samza (a stream processing system).

Title: Apache Kafka, Stream Processing, and Microservices

Abstract: Microservices are rightfully associated with REST, but a lot of what a company does isn’t easily modeled by a blocking request and response. What is the right way to build this type of asynchronous service? This talk will show the relationship between this type of service and the emerging paradigm of stream processing, and will introduce Kafka's Streams API, a powerful distributed stream processing client that is part of Apache Kafka.

Second Talk

Speaker: Anil Kumar, lead engineer, Walmart Labs

Bio: Anil is Lead Engineer at Walmart Labs specializing in enabling stream processing, cloud computing, search services & information retrieval. Prior to working with the WalmartLabs team, Anil was Principal Software Architect for Adchemy, acquired by Walmart, Yahoo! & several startups. My background and interests are Real-Time Communications, Transport & application layer protocols, AdTech, Data Processing, Machine learning.

Title: Stream Processing for Real Time Retail

Abstract: I will expand on my earlier blog https://medium.com/walmartlabs/apache-kafka-for-item-setup-3fe8f4ba5967 using Kafka, Stream processing for Retail and share updates on Kafka Streams & Apache Flink.

About WalmartLabs:
Through the innovative fusion of retail, social and mobile, @WalmartLabs is redefining Commerce for the largest retailer worldwide. We are a group comprised of technologists and business people in the industry, excited about the limitless opportunities that this next generation of Commerce will bring to billions of people around the globe, all in an effort to help them save money and live better. As the idea incubator for the world's largest global retailer, we don't just build products, we create experiences. @WalmartLabs taps into the talents of online retail visionaries to design, prototype and build technology-fueled products that bridge the gap between what's next and what's best. @WalmartLabs brings together dozens of engineers, scientists and product experts to execute a cutting edge vision. @WalmartLabs is the technical powerhouse behind Walmart Global eCommerce. We employ big data at scale - from machine learning, data mining and optimization algorithms, to modeling and analyzing massive flows of data from online, social, mobile and offline commerce.