IN-PERSON: Apache Kafka® Survival and A Kafka Producer’s Request

Hello streamers! Please join us for an IN-PERSON Apache Kafka® meetup on Wednesday, February 28th from 5:30pm hosted by Confluent!

📍Venue:
Confluent
899 W Evelyn Ave
Mountain View, CA

****Please note******: It will be required for all attendees to sign an NDA upon arrival to the meetup. If you would like to sign in advance of the meetup, please complete this form. Very important to note: your email address will only be used to send you an Envoy invite for advance visitor registration to Confluent HQ.

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🗓 Agenda:

• 5:30pm: Doors Open
• 6:00pm-6:45pm: Kafka Survival: Poison Pills, Schema Compatibility, Data Contracts, Florent Ramiere and Stephane Derosiaux, Conduktor
• 6:45pm - 7:30pm: A Kafka Producer’s Request: Or, There and Back Again, Danica Fine, Confluent
• 7:30pm-8:00pm:Additional Q&A and Networking

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💡 Speakers for first talk:
Florent Ramiere, Head of Gateway at Conduktor and Stephane Derosiaux, co-founder and CTO of Conduktor

Title of Talk:
Kafka Survival: Poison Pills, Schema Compatibility, Data Contracts

Abstract:
We have built a nice application; it's up and running for days in production, crunching thousands of records per minute. Everything works fine... until it crashes.

Join us to learn how to strengthen your Kafka app against common real-world challenges like 'poison pill' data and schema compatibility issues. What are the causes and the consequences? How can we implement safety measures? We'll focus on how to identify and fix problematic data or schema changes that can crash Kafka apps, and how to handle errors using exception-handling strategies.

Next, we'll explore how to introduce proactive error testing and prevention techniques, such as Schema ID Validation. We'll cover the importance of a robust data contract validation system, ensuring errors are detected before reaching Kafka and impacting your apps.

Bios:
Florent Ramiere is passionate about technology and has more than twenty years of hands on experience in software development and project management. After a few years at Confluent as a System Engineer, he went on to build advanced products at Conduktor to help teams be more successful with Kafka.

Stephane Derosiaux is the co-founder and CTO of Conduktor. An Apache Kafka enthusiast, he's dedicated to creating the best data streaming experience for developers and organizations. He has more than 15+ years of expertise in software and data engineering, acquired through extensive large-scale Adtech and Retailtech organizations.

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💡 Speaker Two:
Danica Fine, Staff Developer Advocate, Confluent

Title of Talk:
A Kafka Producer’s Request: Or, There and Back Again

Abstract:
Do you know how your data moves into your Apache Kafka® instance? From the programmer’s point of view, it’s relatively simple. But under the hood, writing to Kafka is a complex process with a fascinating life cycle that’s worth understanding.

Anytime you call producer.send(), those calls are translated into low-level requests which are sent along to the brokers for processing. In this session, we’ll dive into the world of Kafka producers to follow a request from an initial call to send(), all the way to disk, and back to the client via the broker’s final response. Along the way, we’ll explore a number of client and broker configurations that affect how these requests are handled and discuss the metrics that you can monitor to help you to keep track of every stage of the request life cycle.

By the end of this session, you’ll know the ins and outs of the read and write requests that your Kafka clients make, making your next debugging or performance analysis session a breeze.

Bio:
Danica Fine is a Staff 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. Her expertise in streaming systems has taken her to a number of conferences and speaking engagements over the years, giving her the chance to express her love of Kafka to anyone who will listen. 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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DISCLAIMER
BY ATTENDING THIS EVENT IN PERSON, you acknowledge that risk includes possible exposure to and illness from infectious diseases including COVID-19, and accept responsibility for this, if it occurs.
NOTE: We are unable to cater for any attendees under the age of 21.

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