IN PERSON! Apache Kafka® Meetup (December 2024)

Hello everyone! Join us for an Apache Kafka® meetup on December 10th from 5:30pm, hosted by Zendesk in Melbourne!

The address, agenda, and speaker information can be found below. See you there!

📍Venue:
Zendesk
Level 13/550 Bourke St, Melbourne VIC 3000

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🗓 Agenda:

• 5:30pm: Doors open
• 5:30pm - 6:00pm: Pizza, Drinks, and Networking
• 6:00pm - 6:15pm: Frankie Chen, Staff Software Engineer, Zendesk
• 6:15pm - 6:30pm: Peter Nham, Staff Software Engineer, Zendesk
• 6:30pm - 6:40pm: Darragh Kennedy, Director of Engineering, Zendesk
• 6:40pm - 7:00pm: Simon Duff, Solutions Architect, Confluent
• 7:00pm - 7:30pm: Additional Q&A & Networking

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💡 Speaker:
Frankie Chen, Staff Software Engineer, Zendesk

Bio:
Frankie is a Staff Engineer at Zendesk, specialising in developing robust platforms on top of large-scale distributed systems such as Kafka and Kubernetes. With over five years of experience at Zendesk, Frankie has participated in numerous infrastructure projects, including the successful transformation of the Kafka platform from AWS bare metal to a fully Kubernetes-native ecosystem. Passionate about crafting tailored solutions, Frankie thrives on addressing the unique challenges faced by the organisation, ensuring that technology effectively meets the specific needs.

Talk:
Quorum Stability Is All You Need: Running KRaft on Kubernetes

Abstract:
In this talk, we’ll dive into how Zendesk runs Kafka's KRaft mode on Kubernetes, focusing on the strategies we use for maintaining quorum stability so as to ensure reliable operation and high availability.

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💡 Speaker:
Peter Nham, Staff Software Engineer, Zendesk

Bio:
I'm a Staff Engineer at Zendesk and over the last 3 years, I've been in the Kafka team where I've been a part of the big Kafka modernisation journey that's been going on. This has included migrating Kafka to Kubernetes, making Kafka resources self service and more recently migrating to KRaft. We're not only involved in maintaining and running Kafka but also with building out event streaming foundation apps at Zendesk. Other than Kafka, I'm also passionate about Scala and functional programming and Zendesk has been a great opportunity to combine my interests together.
Outside of work, I enjoy playing ultimate frisbee and discovering new board games.

Talk:
KRaft Migration Unplugged: Real-World Lessons from ZooKeeper to KRaft

Abstract:
At Zendesk, we embarked on the migration from ZooKeeper to KRaft shortly after its release. In this talk, I will share our journey through the migration process, discussing the lessons learned and the challenges we faced along the way. Hopefully this will help you with your own migrations and avoiding the obstacles that we encountered.

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💡 Speaker:
Darragh Kennedy, Director of Engineering, Zendesk

Bio:
Engineering Director with over 20 years of experience building Infrastructure, Cloud and Data platforms.

Talk:
Kafka Transformation End Line

Abstract:
We made it to the end of our Kafka platform transformation, hear about the good, the bad and the ugly of the multi-year project.

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💡 Speaker:
Simon Duff, Solutions Architect, Confluent

Bio:
Simon is a creative and inquisitive IT professional, with a Masters in Artificial Intelligence. He has extensive experience, having worked 7 years for Splunk Professional Services, and 3 years at Confluent, where he developed cutting-edge solutions for clients. He also has extensive expertise in Information Security. Simon is a valuable asset to any team, bringing his skills and experience to deliver the best results for clients.

Talk:
Confluent Cloud Chargeback dashboards

Abstract:
Enterprise Platforms that run Kafka may find themselves needing to charge different business units for using this shared Kafka resource. They need to be careful however, as the wrong selection of charge back may lead to clients leaving the platform or reducing how they use the platform, leading to less value for all business units. Choosing the right model can lead to an abundance of reusable data products, creating huge value for the enterprise.

In this discussion, we will look at different charge back models and how their selection drives different behavior for end users. We illustrate this by looking at the dashboards and models developed for a large Australian Financial Institution using Confluent Cloud

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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 18.

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If you would like to speak or host our next event please let us know! community@confluent.io