Apache Kafka, KSQL, Demos & Booking.com

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Join us for an Apache Kafka meetup on March 21st from 6pm, hosted by Booking.com in Amsterdam. The address, agenda and speaker information can be found below. See you there!

Agenda:
17:30 - 18:00 - Guests arrival
18.00 - 18.50 - Data Streaming Services and k8s by Sergey Belikov, Booking.com
18.50 - 19.35 - Networking Break and Pizzas/drinks
19.35 - 20.35 - ATM Fraud Detection with Apache Kafka and KSQL by Robin Moffat, Confluent
20.35 - 20.55 - Demo by Mic Hussey, Confluent

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First Talk

Speaker:
Sergey Belikov

Bio:
Sergey joined Booking.com in 2016 as a backend developer in Frontend department. Currently he works in the Core Infrastructure department within a team responsible for development, support and 24/7 reliability management of large-scale internal data-streaming pipelines built on top of the Kafka ecosystem.

Title:
Data Streaming Services and k8s

Abstract:
Over the course of this talk I will share our experience of making data from a Kafka topic available for downstream processing as a Hive table. Kafka Connect plays a core role in our setup so I will cover challenges we faced along our way while building this platform. Also, I will review what kind of tooling and automation team is using to stay sane during the day and sleep well during the night.

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Second Talk

Speaker:
Robin Moffatt

Bio:
Robin is a Developer Advocate at Confluent, the company founded by the original creators of Apache Kafka, as well as an Oracle Groundbreaker Ambassador and ACE Director (Alumnus). His career has always involved data, from the old worlds of COBOL and DB2, through the worlds of Oracle and Hadoop, and into the current world with Kafka. His particular interests are analytics, systems architecture, performance testing and optimization. He blogs at http://cnfl.io/rmoff and http://rmoff.net/ (and previously http://ritt.md/rmoff) and can be found tweeting grumpy geek thoughts as @rmoff. Outside of work he enjoys drinking good beer and eating fried breakfasts, although generally not at the same time.

Title:
ATM Fraud Detection with Apache Kafka and KSQL

Abstract:
Detecting fraudulent activity in real time can save a business significant amounts of money, but has traditionally been an area requiring a lot of complex programming and frameworks, particularly at scale. Using KSQL, it’s possible to use just SQL to build scalable real-time applications.
In this talk, we’ll look at what KSQL is, and how its ability to join streams of events can be used to detect possibly fraudulent activity based on a stream of ATM transactions. We’ll also see how easy it is to integrate Kafka with other systems—both upstream and downstream—using Kafka Connect to stream from a database into Kafka, and from Kafka into Elasticsearch.

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Third Talk
Speaker:
Mic Hussey

Bio:
Mic is a Systems Engineer at Confluent, the company founded by the creators of Apache Kafka.
He started out his career as a Civil Engineer in Dublin but fell into IT and moved to Stockholm at the height of the dot com boom.
He's been architecting and building event based distributed systems for most of the time since, with a short detour into API Management along the way.

Title:
Demo

Abstract:
TBA