Apache Kafka® Fundamentals (with Cloud component)

Hello Streamers!

Join us for an Apache Kafka® meetup on Monday, February 14th, at 2:00 pm GMT-4 This meetup will be presented in English. It will be free training with a walkthrough exercise on the Fundamentals of Apache Kafka®!

The session will be run by Doug Hogan, Senior Technical Instructor at Confluent, and will include a presentation on important technical fundamentals. The presentation will include some quick interactivity and be followed by an interactive discussion of a concrete scenario or two. The session will wrap up with an interactive exercise wherein you’ll be able to sign up for Confluent Cloud and experience basic Kafka in action.
As with all Confluent Meetups, it is free, ungated, purely technical, and purely educational.

****VERY IMPORTANT: To join this meetup, please go to the Zoom App and enter the following details:

Meeting ID: 954 3984 7248
Password 915121

Please visit https://cnfl.io/developer-live
prior to the meetup so you’re able to follow along as Doug presents the hands-on lab with guidance on setting up Confluent Cloud and simple producing and consuming.

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Agenda (time below is GMT-4):
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM:
Presentation on Apache Kafka Technical Fundamentals
(including two quick interactive knowledge checks)

-Interactive discussion of one or more concrete scenario problems

-Hands-on lab with guidance on setting up Confluent Cloud and simple producing and consuming

-Q&A, additional discussion, time permitting

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Speaker:
Doug Hogan, Sr. Technical Trainer, Confluent

Title:
Apache Kafka Fundamentals (with Cloud component)

Abstract:
Apache Kafka was built with the vision to become the central nervous system that makes real-time data available to all the applications that need to use it, with numerous use cases like stock trading and fraud detection, to transportation, data integration, and real-time analytics. Whether you’re just getting started or have already built stream processing applications, you will find actionable insights in this series that will enable you to further derive business value from your data systems.

Bio:
Doug Hogan is a senior technical trainer at Confluent. He works as the course champion for the Developer Skills course and has been working on enhancing interactivity and engagement in Confluent Training. Before coming to Confluent, he spent about a decade teaching university computer science and math classes.

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Online Meetup Etiquette:
•Please unmute yourself when you have a question.
•Please hold your questions until the end of the presentation or use the zoomchat!
•Please arrive on time as zoom meetings can become locked for many reasons (though if you get locked out a recording will be available, but you may have to wait a little while for it!)

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