IN PERSON! Apache Kafka® Meetup (June 2026)

Hello everyone! Join us for an Apache Kafka® meetup on June 24th from 5:30pm, hosted by Ippon in Melbourne!

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

📍Venue:
Ippon Australia Collab Hub
Level 8, 607 Bourke Street
Melbourne VIC 3000

IMPORTANT:
Please note that for security purposes, all attendees are required to sign in at the lobby to get into the building.

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🗓 Agenda:

• 5:30pm: Doors open
• 5:30pm - 6:00pm: Pizza, Drinks, and Networking
• 6:00pm - 6:30pm: Usman Khan, Technical Support Engineer, Confluent
• 6:30pm - 7:00pm: TBC
• 7:00pm - 7:30pm: Additional Q&A & Networking

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💡 Speaker:
Usman Khan, Technical Support Engineer, Confluent

Talk:
Kafka Connect On-Prem Troubleshooting Playbook

Abstract:
When a Kafka Connect sink stops writing, the failure can be hiding in one of several layers, Database, the connector config, the Connect worker, the schema, or the topic itself. In this session, Usman walks through a live Oracle JDBC Sink troubleshooting demo built on the kafka-docker-playground, showing a repeatable classify → fix → verify approach. We cover how to check connector and task state via the REST API and internal Kafka topics, navigate worker logs efficiently, use the Connect admin logging API for dynamic trace logging without restarts, Grafana metrics, manipulate sink offsets for replay.

Bio:
Usman Khan is a Technical Support Engineer on Confluent's Global Support team, based in Melbourne and covering the APAC region. He specialises in Kafka Connect, working daily with engineering teams to diagnose and resolve connector and framework issues across both on-premises deployments and Confluent Cloud.

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💡 Speaker:
TBC

Bio:
TBC

Talk:
TBC

Abstract:
TBC

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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