DevOps in Microservices: Challenges and Best Practices @ Apache Kafka® ATL

Join Sam Kasimalla, Senior Solution Engineer at JFrog, in-person for his talk at the upcoming Apache Kafka Meetup!

JFrog is a Proud host sponsor of the Apache Kafka ATL

Please join us for an IN-PERSON Apache Kafka® meetup on Monday, April 3rd from 6:00 pm hosted at JFrog Atlanta.

📍Venue:
JFrog
5909 Peachtree Dunwoody Rd.
Bldg D
Suite 700
Atlanta 30328
*Please note: there is garage with free parking!! Alternatively, JFrog is a 15 minute walk from the Dunwoody MARTA station.
*There will be a community-friendly NDA attendees will sign on an iPad prior to entering (requirement of our host).

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🗓 Agenda:

• 6:00pm: Doors open
• 6:00pm - 6:30pm: Pizza, drinks and networking
• 6:30pm -7:00pm: Better integration tests for Kafka applications with Testcontainers,Oleg Šelajev, Developer Relations, AtomicJar
• 7:00pm - 7:30pm: HA/DR and Kafka: A Primer, Danica Fine, Sr Developer Advocate, Confluent
• 7:30pm-8:00pm: DevOps in Microservices: Challenges and Best Practices, Sam Kasimalla, Senior Solutions Engineer, JFrog
• 8:00pm-8:30pm: Additional Q&A & Networking

💡 Speaker One:
Oleg Šelajev, Developer Relations, AtomicJar
Title of Talk:
Better integration tests for Kafka applications with Testcontainers
Abstract:
Testing distributed event-driven systems is hard but without robust integration tests you cannot ship with confidence.
In this session we explore how Testcontainers libraries allow you programmatically create, manage lifecycle, and configure ephemeral instances of Kafka.
Whether you're working on the JVM, writing Go, .NET, or node.js apps, Testcontainers approach gives your flexibility and confidence to reliably test your code.
Bio:
Oleg Šelajev is a developer advocate at AtomicJar working on making integration tests with Testcontainers better for everyone in the community. VirtualJUG leader. In 2017 became a Java Champion.
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💡 Speaker Two:
Danica Fine, Sr. Developer Advocate, Confluent
Title of Talk:
HA/DR and Kafka: A Primer

Abstract:
If you’re using Apache Kafka in your company for real-time insights, you know that keeping your data safe and available is critical to your operations. Deploying a high-availability, disaster recovery (HA/DR) strategy for your Kafka workloads can increase availability and reliability of your mission-critical applications by minimizing data loss and downtime during unexpected disasters.
In this session, we’ll first explore how Kafka and high-availability go hand-in-hand and then introduce a number of HA/DR strategies used in the Kafka ecosystem––such as active-active, active-passive replication, and multi-regional stretched clusters. From there, we’ll discuss the tools needed to implement and automate many of these strategies.
Bio:
Danica Fine is a Senior Developer Advocate at Confluent where she helps others get the most out of their event-driven pipelines. Prior to this role, she served as a software engineer on a streaming infrastructure team at Bloomberg where she predominantly worked on Kafka Streams- and Kafka Connect-based projects. Danica is committed to increasing diversity in the technical community and actively serves as a mentor to a number of women in tech. She can be found on Twitter, tweeting about tech, plants, and baking @TheDanicaFine.
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💡 Speaker Three:
Sam Kasimalla, Senior Solutions Engineer at JFrog
Title of Talk:
DevOps in Microservices: Challenges and Best Practices

Abstract:
In recent years, the adoption of microservices architecture has gained significant momentum, thanks to its ability to break down large, complex software systems into smaller, more manageable components. However, deploying and managing microservices at scale can be a daunting task, which requires a robust DevOps process to ensure fast, reliable, and continuous delivery of software.
In this talk, we will explore the unique challenges of DevOps in microservices, and the best practices to overcome them.
Bio:
Sam Kasimalla is an experienced Fullstack Developer and DevSecOps Specialist with over 14 years of experience in the tech industry. Having worked with top-tier organizations, including FAANG, Big 4, and Wall Street Sam has a track record of building, maintaining, managing, and selling various technologies.