Intro to Apache Kafka®

Hello Streamers!

Our friends from the Twin Cities .Net User Group will be hosting an online meetup on Thursday, February 3rd and you are invited! The speaker will be our own Jennifer Snipes of Confluent.

VERY IMPORTANT: To register to attend, please follow the link below. In this link you will find the directions, further details and reminders for this meetup.
https://www.meetup.com/tcdnug/events/283192508/

Speaker:
Jennifer Snipes, Confluent

Title of Talk:
Intro to Apache Kafka®

Abstract:
Apache Kafka is an open source distributed streaming platform that allows you to build applications and process events as they occur. As a real-time, scalable, and durable system, Kafka can be used for fault-tolerant storage as well as for other use cases, such as stream
processing, centralized data management, metrics, log aggregation, event sourcing and more.

This talk will explain what a streaming platform such as Apache Kafka is and some of the use cases and design patterns around its use.

Bio:
Jennifer is a passionate software engineering
leader with 18 years of extensive experience architecting, designing, and developing software systems across various industries. Prior to joining Confluent, Jennifer was a Hadoop Architect & Administrator at Sentara Healthcare, and a Data Solutions Architect with Bank of America. She has been with Confluent for 3 years. Jennifer holds a BS Degree in Computer Science from William & Mary and an MS Degree in Computer Science from the University of Virginia.