Robin Moffatt , Apache Kafka and KSQL and Dave Remy, Event Sourcing Primer

We have two talks scheduled for this meetup. Robin Moffatt, Confluent Developer Advocate extraordinare speaking on Apache Kafka and KSQL in Action and Dave Remy, CEO of Event Store, giving an Event Sourcing Primer. It should be a great meetup with plenty of time for meeting the speakers and learning from others in the community. Beer, non-alcoholic beverages, and pizza as well!

Details on the talks and the speakers below:

Agenda:

6:30 - 6:45 Grab pizza, beverages
6:45 - 6:55 Rob and Dave Housekeeping and Intros
6:55 - 7:40 Dave Remy, Event Sourcing Primer: Building systems using the event sourcing pattern
7:40 - 7:55 Break, refresh beverages/pizza
7:55 - 8:45 Robin Moffatt, Apache Kafka and KSQL in Action: Let's Build a Streaming Data Pipeline!

Robin Moffatt, Confluent Developer Advocate

Apache Kafka and KSQL in Action: Let’s Build a Streaming Data Pipeline!

Have you ever thought that you needed to be a programmer to do stream processing and build streaming data pipelines? Think again! Apache Kafka is a distributed, scalable, and fault-tolerant streaming platform, providing low-latency pub-sub messaging coupled with native storage and stream processing capabilities. Integrating Kafka with RDBMS, NoSQL, and object stores is simple with Kafka Connect, which is part of Apache Kafka. KSQL is the open-source SQL streaming engine for Apache Kafka, and makes it possible to build stream processing applications at scale, written using a familiar SQL interface.

In this talk we’ll explain the architectural reasoning for Apache Kafka and the benefits of real-time integration, and we’ll build a streaming data pipeline using nothing but our bare hands, Kafka Connect, and KSQL.
Gasp as we filter events in real time! Be amazed at how we can enrich streams of data with data from RDBMS! Be astonished at the power of streaming aggregates for anomaly detection!

Robin's 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 previouslyhttp://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. - Twitter: @rmoff

Dave Remy, CEO Event Store

Event Sourcing Primer: Building source systems using the event sourcing pattern

As requested from multiple Seattle Event Driven meetup members this is a talk on event sourcing starting from the beginning. The talk will cover:

1. What is event sourcing? How is it different from “traditional” development approaches. One way data flow. Benefits and tradeoffs. Brief history and context.
2. The pattern: Commands, Events, State Machines, Subscriptions, Read Models. Show some code.
3. Event sourcing design strategies. Event modeling, DDD.
4. Event Store and other event stream persistence alternatives. Compare and contrast the Event Store target use case (database for source systems) version other event distribution technologies (Kafka, Kinesis, etc.).
5. Event sourcing scenarios. Microservices, legacy migration, backup, occasionally connected.
6. Event sourcing in relationship to the larger Event Driven Architecture trend.

Dave's Bio:

Dave is CEO of Event Store after being CTO at a large asset management software company and choosing event sourcing and Event Store as a core element in the transformation of that business. In that process he took the "red pill" around event sourcing as a critical pattern for building modern distributed systems. Dave has worked at Microsoft, IBM, BEA as well as multiple successful startups.