IN-PERSON: A Kafka Producer's Request: Or, There and Back Again

Hello Streamers!

Along with our friends from RVA Data Enthusiasts you are invited to attend a meetup on Tuesday, March 26th starting at 5:30pm EDT. Venue hosted by Ippon Technologies and food and drink sponsored by Confluent.

***PLEASE NOTE, VERY IMPORTANT***: If you are interested to attend this meetup, please register here. Registration for this meetup will not be open on this page.
https://www.meetup.com/rva-data-engineering/events/299487920/

Agenda:

• 530p - Arrive, grab some food and drink
• 600p - Welcome, opening remarks
• 6:15p- Danica Fine, A Kafka Producer's Request: Or, There and Back Again
• 700p - Open discussion, Networking, food, drinks
• 730p - End

Speaker:
Danica Fine, Staff Developer Advocate, Confluent

Title of Talk:
A Kafka Producer's Request: Or, There and Back Again

Abstract:
Do you know how your data moves into your Apache Kafka instance? From the programmer's point of view, it's relatively simple. But under the hood, writing to Kafka is a complex process with a fascinating life cycle that's worth understanding. Anytime you call producer.send(), those calls are translated into low-level requests which are sent along to the brokers for processing. In this session, we'll dive into the world of Kafka producers to follow a request from an initial call to send(), all the way to disk and back to the client via the broker's final response. Along the way, we'll explore a number of client and broker configurations that affect how these requests are handled and discuss the metrics that you can monitor to help you to keep track of every stage of the request life cycle. By the end of this session, you'll know the ins and outs of the read and write requests that your Kafka clients make, making your next debugging or performance analysis session a breeze.

Bio:
Danica Fine is a Staff Developer Advocate at Confluent where she helps others get the most out of their event-driven pipelines. Prior to this role, she served as a software engineer on a streaming infrastructure team at Bloomberg where she predominantly worked on Kafka Streams- and Kafka Connect-based projects. Her expertise in streaming systems has taken her to a number of conferences and speaking engagements over the years, giving her the chance to express her love of Kafka to anyone who will listen. Danica is committed to increasing diversity in the technical community and actively serves as a mentor to a number of women in tech. She can be found on Twitter, tweeting about tech, plants, and baking @TheDanicaFine.

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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 21.

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