4 Meetups and a Conference, session two, this time with Otter Pops!

Hello Streamers!

Please join us for our second meetup in this exciting series, an IN-PERSON Apache Kafka® meetup on Thursday, June 27th from 5:30pm.
And to celebrate Kafka Streams being at this event and to beat the summer heat, we'll have Otter Pops for everyone!

Venue:
Confluent Rooftop Patio!
899 W Evelyn Ave
Mountain View, CA

5th floor

****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/Fun Food and Beverages!
• 6:00pm-6:20pm: Greg Harris, Aiven
• 6:20pm - 6:40pm: Sophie Blee-Goldman, Founding Engineer, Responsive
• 6:40pm-7:15pm: Afzal Mazhar, Software Practice Lead, Confluent
• 7:15pm-8:00pm: RAFFLE/additional Q&A and Networking

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💡 Speaker for first talk:
Greg Harris, Open Source Software Engineer, Aiven

Title of Talk:
Help, My Connector has a mind of its own!

Abstract:
Like a poorly trained pet, Connect sometimes doesn’t listen to commands.

Have you ever tried to change a configuration on a dedicated
MirrorMaker 2 cluster, and still seen the old configuration appear in
the logs? This is an everyday occurrence for many Connect operators, and have been for years. To cope with it, most operators have resorted to applying an ancient IT strategy: Turn it off and back on again.

But that only provides temporary relief, you and everyone else will
have the same problem again until it’s fixed upstream. We’ll hear
stories of Connect and MM2, operators’ sleepless nights, and the
upstream fixes that saved the day.

Bio:
Greg Harris is an Apache Kafka Committer & PMC specializing in Kafka
Connect and connectors. He previously worked at Confluent developing
connectors and the Confluent Cloud Connect managed offering. He now works with the Aiven Open Source Program Office (OSPO), and is a
full-time open-source contributor to Apache Kafka.

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💡 Speaker for second talk:
Sophie Blee-Goldman, Founding Engineer, Responsive

Title of Talk:
Otter Pups: Shallow Dives into Kafka Streams

Abstract:
What's the word in the world of Kafka Streams these days? It can be hard to keep up and stay afloat on the river of KIPs flooding in, not to mention all the KIPs that get washed away! One day we're making great strides in error handling, the next day we're processing events asynchronously (on purpose??).
Note: You can think of this as a "prequel" my Current talk; if it wets your appetite for Kafka Streams, there's always more!

Bio:
Sophie Blee-Goldman is a committer and PMC member of Apache Kafka with a focus on Kafka Streams. She is currently the Founding Engineer at Responsive which offers a platform for managed Kafka Streams, and before that worked at Confluent on (you guessed it) Kafka Streams, and a bit in the plain consumer client as well as Confluent's ksql.
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💡 Speaker for third talk:
Afzal Mazhar, Software Practice Lead, Confluent

Title of Talk:
Test Data Generators for Data Streaming Applications: what, why and how?

Abstract:
Having good test data is a challenge for any system but being able to test a streaming application with quality data is in a league of its own. Aside from the obvious question of it providing the functionality it was built for, how does it fare in areas specific to streaming? Areas like throughput and latency, windowing, state management, schema evolution and flow control have nuances not normally covered in testing talks.

In this talk, we will review common issues to look for, like exploding state size or late data arrival and how we can use test data generators to shape our test data to test for them. We will first look at the various data generators available to us and when does it make sense to use production data and when to write our own.

Bio:
Afzal Mazhar is a seasoned technologist passionate about helping developers solve complex problems. With extensive experience in various industries, he understands the specific challenges developers face and provides insightful solutions.

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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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