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Upcoming events (1)
See all- Running Real-time Missions Critical Systems: K8s, Data Streaming and DatabaseAcademy Hall, NFQ Technologies office (B corpus, 6th floor) , Vilnius
Join us for an Aerospike x Apache Kafka® Apache Flink® x Apache Iceberg meetup on Thursday, June 26th from 6:00pm in Vilnius hosted by HomeToGo & supported by Aerospike!
📍Venue:
Academy Hall, NFQ Technologies office (B corpus, 6th floor) Rinktinės g. 5, 09234 Vilnius
(parking unavailable)🗓 Agenda:
- 6:00pm - 6:20pm: Welcome/Food/Drinks
- 6:20pm – 6:45pm: Olena Kutsenko, Staff Developer Advocate, Confluent
- 6:50pm – 7:15pm: Audrius Bugas, Technology Director - Architecture @ HomeToGo
- 7:20pm – 8pm: David Gerchikov, Software Engineer, Aerospike
- 8:00pm - 9:00pm: Additional Q&A and Networking
💡 Speaker One:
Olena Kutsenko, Staff Developer Advocate, ConfluentTitle of Talk:
The art of structuring real-time data streams into actionable insightsAbstract:
Real-time data can be messy, unpredictable, and hard to manage. To unlock its full potential, you need a way to turn raw streams into clean, structured data. In this talk, we’ll show you how to use Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, and Apache Iceberg to organize real-time data streams efficiently and prepare them for advanced use cases, including AI applications.We’ll start by explaining how Kafka handles high-speed data streams and how Flink processes these streams in real time. You’ll learn how to use Flink to transform raw data into structured formats, ensuring it’s ready for storage and analysis. Then, we’ll dive into Iceberg, demonstrating how it stores and organizes structured data for easy querying and visualizing.
Through clear examples, we’ll walk you through building a practical pipeline that turns chaotic data streams into organized structure. By the end of the session, you’ll know how to manage real-time data effectively and set the stage for downstream AI and analytics. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced developer, this talk will give you the tools to simplify and enhance your data pipelines!
💡 Speaker Two:
Audrius Bugas, Technology Director - Architecture @ HomeToGoTitle of Talk:
Optimising HomeToGo Vacation Rental Search with AerospikeAbstract:
This talk will highlight how Aerospike technology helped HomeToGo to scale vacation rental search functionality by supporting low latency access to realtime availability and price data - challenges we've met, search architecture and infrastructure.💡 Speaker Three:
David Gerchikov, Software Engineer, AerospikeTitle of Talk:
Running Real-time Systems in K8s: Pros, Cons and Challenges
(this session will be delivered in Lithuanian)Abstract:
This presentation will cover the pros and cons of running real-time systems on Kubernetes. It will also explore how Kubernetes’ unified API across different cloud providers—a key feature that supports its cloud-agnostic nature—might not always simplify cloud-to-cloud migrations, as one might expect.***
DISCLAIMER
NOTE: We are unable to cater for any attendees under the age of 20.
If you would like to speak or host our next event please let us know! community@confluent.io
