Apache Kafka® Horror Stories

Join us for an Apache Kafka® meetup on October 15th from 6:30pm at Celonis hosted by Lenses!

Welcome to this seasonal meetup, exploring the potential and spooky peculiarities of Apache Kafka, and how to handle them. We provide snacks, drinks, and stories from the Kafka community.

📍Venue:
Celonis Office, Pl. de Manuel Gómez-Moreno, 2,
Tetuán, 28020 Madrid, Spain

💡 Speaker One:
Jose Rafael Garcia, Platform Engineer, Adidas

Title of Talk:
How to protect yourself from a Kafka Connector storm?

Abstract:
It’s Friday, it’s 3pm, and you are hoping for a quiet start to the weekend. You receive a call: Looks like some clients can’t connect to Kafka, but the infrastructure seems healthy and operational. After some time, the list of clients affected is growing and growing, but everything seems to be stable at a glance. What’s going on?

In this 30 minute talk, Rafael Garcia, Platform Engineer at Adidas covers how you can approach failures like this, and how to prevent them from happening in the first place:

• Root cause analysis
• Blast radius
• Key metrics to monitor
• Counter measurements and remediations.

💡 Speaker Two:
Francisco Morillo, Streaming Solutions Architect, AWS

Title of Talk:
Taming silos and stale data with Streaming Data Lakes

Abstract:
Let’s face some of the scariest challenges lurking in your data infrastructure. Data silos and stale data haunt your analytics and slow down your business. But streaming data lakes are here to save the day. We uncover how Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, and Apache Iceberg can help you ensure your data stays fresh, accessible, and ready to deliver real-time insights.

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DISCLAIMER
NOTE: We are unable to cater for any attendees under the age of 18.

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