IN PERSON: Apache Kafka® Meetup - Sept 2024

Join us for an Apache Kafka® meetup on Monday, September 2nd from 6:00pm in Oslo hosted by Statnett!

📍Venue:
Statnett, Nydalen Allé 33, 0484 Oslo

**IMPORTANT: Please fill out this form 48 hours prior to the start of the event on September 2nd AND please bring your ID with you to the event.**

🗓 Agenda:

• 6:00pm: Doors open
• 6:00pm – 6:30pm: Food/Drinks and networking
• 6:30pm - 7:00pm: Aksel Holbek Sørbye: M.Sc. Energy and Environmental Engineering. Software Engineer, Statnett & Herman Kolstad Jakobsen - M.Sc. Cybernetics and Robotics- Robotic Systems. Software Engineer, Systek
• 7:00pm - 7:30pm: Tim Berglund, VP DevRel, Confluent
• 7:30pm - 8:30pm: Additional Q&A and Networking

💡 Speaker One:
Aksel Holbek Sørbye: M.Sc. Energy and Environmental Engineering. Software Engineer, Statnett
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Herman Kolstad Jakobsen - M.Sc. Cybernetics and Robotics- Robotic Systems. Software Engineer, Systek

Title of Talk:
Automateing Power Balanceing: How Statnett Uses TopologyTestDriver to Ensure High-Quality Kafka Streams for the future of power grid regulation

Abstract:
Statnett's core mission is to ensure that the amount of power produced to the Norwegian grid is balanced out with the power that's being consumed. The organization is now facing one of the biggest changes to it's operation in over 70 years. The operation of the power grid will move from an hourly regulation to a regulation with a 15-minute resolution. This requires automation.

To succeed in the conversion, Statnett combines the use of real-time data with sophisticated machine learning algorithms. An essential part of this solution is Apache Kafka.

It is essential that the technical solutions are of the highest quality. In this lecture, we will present TopologyTestDriver and demonstrate how the class makes it trivial to test Kafka Streams applications while getting both a short runtime and broad test capabilities.

Bios:
Aksel Sørbye has over three years of experience working as an Software Engineer at Statnett. With a passion for learning and sharing knowledge, he happily attends courses and workshops regularly and shares his learnings with his colleagues, including in Statnett's internal Kafka Subject group. He took the CCDAK certification in October 2023.

Herman Kolstad Jakobsen has over three years of experience working as an IT consultant, where he now sits as a Tech Lead for a product team at Statnett. Herman works with Kafka Streams on a daily basis and took the CCDAK certification in October 2022.

💡 Speaker Two:
Tim Berglund, VP DevRel, Confluent

Title of Talk:
How Do You Query a Stream?

Abstract:
So you've embraced Apache Kafka as the core of your data infrastructure, embracing event-driven services that communicate with each through topics, integrate with legacy systems through an ecosystem of connectors, and respond more or less in real time to things that happen in the world outside your software. Logs of immutable events form a more robust backbone than the one-database-to-rule-them-all of your deep monolith past. Your stack is more evolvable, more responsive, and easier to reason about. There's just one problem: now that everything is a stream, how do you query things?If this is you, you can probably name at least one or two ways off the top of your head, but have you stopped to think through how to make the choice? It is time you did. In this talk, we'll explore the solutions currently in use in the world for asking questions about the contents of a topic, including Kafka Streams, the various streaming SQL implementations, your favorite relational database, your favorite data lake, and real-time analytics databases like Apache Pinot.

There is no single correct answer to the question, so as responsible builders of systems, we must understand our options and the tradeoffs they present to us. You'll leave this talk even happier that you've embraced Kafka as the heart of your system, and ready to deploy the right choice for querying the logs that hold your data.

Bio:
Tim serves as the VP of Developer Relations at Confluent, where he and his team work to make streaming data and its emerging toolset accessible to all developers. He is a regular speaker at conferences and a presence on YouTube explaining complex technology topics in an accessible way. He lives with his wife and stepdaughter in Mountain View, CA, USA. He has three grown children and four grandchildren.

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DISCLAIMER
BY ATTENDING THIS EVENT IN PERSON, you acknowledge that risk includes possible exposure to and illness from infectious diseases including COVID-19, and accept responsibility for this, if it occurs.
NOTE: We are unable to cater for any attendees under the age of 18.
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