Confluent Developer Live Free Training Workshop: Kafka Connect 101

Hello Streamers!

Join us for a special Confluent Developer Live training workshop on Monday, April 4th at 1:00pm GMT-4. Please find the details to join this free hands-on training with a walkthrough exercise on Kafka Connect 101. This training will be presented in Spanish.

The session will be run by Antonio Loma Daza, Senior Technical Instructor at Confluent, and will include a presentation on important technical fundamentals as well as live hands-on training.

As with all Confluent Meetups, it is free, purely technical, and purely educational.

******TWO IMPORTANT ACTIONS TO ATTEND THIS EVENT:*******
STEP 1: BETWEEN NOW AND THE EVENT:
Please sign up for Confluent Cloud using this link (its free and no Credit Card required) https://cnfl.io/live-cloud feel free to use the Promo code CC60COMM as well - this will ensure that you can follow along as Antonio presents the hands-on lab with guidance on setting up Confluent Cloud and simple producing and consuming.

STEP 2: WHEN THE EVENT BEGINS:
Join this meetup by going to the Zoom app and entering the following details:
Meeting ID: 98301460429
Password: 544408

******EVENT DETAILS*******
Agenda (time below is in GMT-4):
1:00PM - about 1:50 PM
-Presentation on Kafka Connect 101

about 1:50 PM - 2:30 PM
-Interactive discussion of one or more concrete scenario problems
-Demo & hands-on lab
-Q&A, additional discussion, time permitting
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Speaker:
Antonio Loma Daza, Technical Instructor, Confluent

Title:
Kafka Connect 101

Abstract:
Kafka Connect is a component of Apache Kafka for performing streaming integration between Kafka and other systems like databases, cloud services, search indexes, file systems, and key-value stores.Kafka Connect makes it easy to stream data from numerous sources into Kafka, and stream data from Kafka to numerous targets. There are literally hundreds of different connectors available for Kafka Connect.

Bio:
Antonio Loma Daza is a senior technical trainer at Confluent, working for EMEA from France. He works as course champion for the Confluent Advance Administration course. A jack of all trades, Antonio has previously worked in industrial automatization, Linux administration, and enterprise-hardware support training.
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