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Upcoming events
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From Streams to Search: Real-Time Data with Kafka + Elasticsearch
Plug and Play Tech Center 440 N Wolfe Rd, Sunnyvale, CA 94085, Sunnyvale, CA, USIMPORTANT PLEASE RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/elastic-silicon-valley-user-group/events/313341825/?eventOrigin=group_upcoming_events
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📝 Agenda:- 5:30 pm Doors open
- 5:45 pm: One Does Not Simply Query a Stream - Viktor Gamov, Principal Developer Advocate, Confluent
- 6:15: Building a Meltano Target for Elasticsearch: Automating SPACE Metrics Dashboard - DT Mirizzi, Principal Software Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
- 6:45 pm: With Elastic, Search finds the insight, Workflows acts on it & Agent Builder Explains it - Steve Leung - Sr. Solutions Architect @ Elastic
- 7:30 pm: Event ends
💭Talk Abstracts:
One Does Not Simply Query a Stream - Viktor Gamov, Principal Developer Advocate, Confluent
Streaming data with Apache Kafka® has become the backbone of modern applications. While streams are ideal for continuous data flow, they lack built-in querying capabilities. Unlike databases with indexed lookups, Kafka’s append-only logs are designed for high-throughput processing—not for on-demand queries. This necessitates additional infrastructure to query streaming data effectively.Traditional approaches replicate stream data into external stores: relational databases like PostgreSQL for operational queries, object storage like S3 accessed via Flink, Spark, or Trino for analytics, and Elasticsearch for full-text search and log analytics. Each serves a purpose—but they also introduce silos, schema mismatches, freshness issues, and complex ETL pipelines that increase system fragility.In this session, we’ll explore solutions that aim to unify operational, analytical, and search workloads across real-time data.We'll demonstrate stream processing with Kafka Streams, Apache Flink®, and SQL engines; real-time analytics with Apache Pinot® ; search capabilities with Elasticsearch; and modern lakehouse approaches using Apache Iceberg® with Tableflow to represent Kafka topics as queryable tables. While there's no one-size-fits-all solution, understanding the tools and trade-offs will help you design more robust and flexible architectures.
With Elastic, Search finds the insight, Workflows acts on it & Agent Builder Explains it - Steve Leung - Sr. Solutions Architect @ Elastic
1 attendeeIN-PERSON: Data Streaming Meetup
San Francisco Marriott Marquis, 780 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA, USJoin us for an Apache Flink® x Apache Kafka® meetup in San Francisco hosted by meshIQ!
📍Venue:
Room 202
AMA Conference Center inside San Francisco Marriott Marquis
780 Mission Street, Blue Elevators, 2nd Level
San Francisco, CA 94103 415-442-6770Specific Instructions
• We are located on the 2nd Level inside the San Francisco Marriott Marquis
• Enter the hotel from either the Valet Drive on Mission Street or from the Fourth Street entrance.
• Walk to the BLUE ELEVATORS, which are located BEHIND the PINK and YELLOW elevator banks.
• Take the BLUE ELEVATORS to the 2nd floor.
• When you step out of the elevator bank on the second floor, make a left.
• AMA's San Francisco Executive Conference Center will be located just down the hall on your left.
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• Once you are in the lobby, take the escalator to the second level and follow the arrows below.🗓 Agenda:
- 5:30pm - 6:00pm: Doors Open/Networking
- 6:00pm - 6:30pm: Elijah Meeks, Principal Engineer I, Confluent
- 6:30pm - 7:00pm: JB Onofre, Director of the ASF & leads OSPO at Dremio
- 7:00pm - 8:00pm: Additional Q&A, Networking
💡First Speaker:
Elijah Meeks, Principal Engineer I, ConfluentTitle of Talk:
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Elijah Meeks is a leading voice in data visualization, with a career spanning both academia and tech. He is currently a Principal Engineer at Confluent, where he focuses on data visualization for real-time streaming data. Previously, he co-founded Noteable, a startup dedicated to advancing data analysis and communication, and was the founding Executive Director of the Data Visualization Society. His experience also includes pioneering data visualization applications at Netflix and Apple, including the development of the charting library Semiotic.Before his time in tech, he worked in the digital humanities at Stanford University, where he served as the technical lead for major projects like ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World. He is also the author of D3.js in Action, now in its third edition. His broad background allows him to speak with deep expertise on the evolution of data visualization, from its foundational principles to its most current applications in industry.
💡 Speaker Two:
JB Onofre, Director of the ASF & leads OSPO at DremioTitle of Talk:
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JB is Director of the ASF, PMC member on ~ 20 Apache projects. He also leads the OSPO at Dremio.1 attendee
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