"Kafka and Microservices" : Insights from Uber and Confluent.

Agenda

• 6:00 PM : Doors open
• 6:00 PM - 6:30 PM : Pizza, Drinks, and Networking
• 6:30 PM - 7:00 PM : "Reliable Messaging Systems with Kafka at Uber" by George Teo, Software Engineer at Uber
• 7.00 PM - 7:45 PM : Deploying and Operating KSQL by Alex Ayars, Software Engineer at Confluent
• 7:45 PM - 8:15 PM : 'Ballerina'- A cloud-native programming language by Sameera Jayasoma, Director-Platform Architecture at WSO2.

Abstracts

"Reliable Messaging Systems with Kafka at Uber" by George Teo, Software Engineer at Uber - In addition to streaming applications, Uber uses Kafka for general pub/sub and message queueing at scale. Come and learn about some of the systems we've built to make Kafka a better messaging system.

"Deploying and Operating KSQL" by Alex Ayars, Software Engineer at Confluent - Learn about KSQL operation and deployment, including
under-the-hood architectural details. You will learn about the various
deployment models, how to track and monitor your KSQL applications,
how to scale in and out, and how to think about capacity planning.

'Ballerina'- A cloud-native programming language by Sameera Jayasoma -
Ballerina is a cloud-native programming language which makes it easy to write microservices that integrate APIs.