Name: IN PERSON! Apache Kafka® Meetup (December 2024)
Start: 2024-12-10T06:30:00.000Z
End: 2024-12-10T08:30:00.000Z
Location: Zendesk

Hello everyone! Join us for an IN PERSON Apache Kafka® meetup on November 30th from 11:00 am, hosted by Pattern Technologies!

**📍 Venue:**
Pattern Technologies India Private Limited,

15th Floor Panchshil Avenue, Survey No. 210, Plot No. 71, Kalyani Nagar- Wadgaon Sheri Rd, Marigold complex, Yerawada, Pune, Maharashtra.

Google Maps Link: [https://maps.app.goo.gl/P2Kr1zLqEQDgue6a6](https://maps.app.goo.gl/oWPyk57HwMbp8hUy6?g_st=com.google.maps.preview.copy)

**Note:**
Two and four wheeler parking is at B2

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**Agenda:**

* 11:00am - 11:20am: Registration & Welcome
* 11:20am - 12:00pm: Akshay Anil Utale, Associate Technical Support Engineer II, Confluent
* 12:00pm - 12:40pm: Yogesh Sharma, Sr. Technical Instructor, Confluent
* 12:40pm - 14:00pm: Lunch

If you would like to speak at or host a meetup please let us know! community@confluent.io (http://confluent.io/)

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**💡 Speaker:**
Akshay Anil Utale, Associate Technical Support Engineer II, Confluent

**Talk:**
Monitoring Apache Kafka®

**Abstract:**
Monitoring Kafka is essential to ensure the reliability, performance, and health of distributed data streaming systems. This talk explores why effective monitoring is crucial for Kafka users, emphasising the need to detect issues proactively and maintain seamless data flow. It details the key Kafka components that require monitoring to ensure smooth operations and prevent disruptions. In this summit talk, we are going to discuss below points:
\- Why Kafka monitoring is crucial for Kafka users
\- What are the Kafka components \(including system resources\) must be monitored
\- What are the open source tools available for Kafka monitoring
\- What specialised monitoring tools confluent have beyond the open\-source options available and many more…

**Bio:**
My name is Akshay Anil Utale and I am working as Associate Technical Support Engineer at Confluent. I am part of Global Technical Support Team. I joined confluent last year May 2023. I am working on Apche Kafka from past few years and constantly expanding my knowledge and expertise of Kafka

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**💡 Speaker:**
Yogesh Sharma, Sr. Technical Instructor, Confluent

**Talk:**
Kafka Fundamentals

**Abstract:**
This talk is to describe what is Apache Kafka and life cycle of a message in Kafka. It will further discuss about the basic building blocks of Kafka like concepts of topics, partitions, producers, consumers and offsets. Explain groups and their benefits, List some responsibilities of brokers. We will try to fit in few questions at the end.

**Bio:**
Yogesh carries 15 years of experience in Training, Consulting and Customer Enablement. He worked on Cloudera, Hortonworks and Apache Hadoop an expert in processing large scale datasets using Big Data tools and with experience of Data in Motion using Kafka, Flink and Spark Streaming, he is helping organizations find the most valuable insights in their data

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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.

As the classroom is a mask-on setting, please be reminded that masks should still be worn at all times unless actively eating or drinking

NOTE: We are unable to cater for any attendees under the age of 18.

\*\*\*If you would like to speak or host our next event please let us know! community@confluent.io (http://confluent.io/)

Pune Apache Kafka® Meetup by Confluent

Alice Richardson

Sagar Chaudhari

Rohit Jadhav

IN PERSON! Apache Kafka® Meetup Pune - November 2024

Pattern Technologies India Private Limited

Hello everyone!

We're very excited to be hosting an **IN-PERSON** meetup in Jakarta. We look forward to seeing you there!
The address, agenda, and speaker information can be found below. See you there!

**📍 Venue:**
WeWork Revenue Tower
Scbd, Jl. Jend. Sudirman No.52-53, Senayan, Kebayoran Baru
Jakarta, JK 12190
Room 25A

**Important:**

* To obtain an elevator pass, all visitors are required to exchange their ID/driver's license/passport in the building lobby's reception area.

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**🗓 Agenda:**

* 7pm: Doors open
* 7pm - 7:30pm: Pizza, Drinks, and Networking
* 7:30pm - 8:00pm: Mustafa Bhanpurawala, Solutions Engineer, Confluent
* 8:00pm - 8:30pm: Additional Q&A & Networking

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**💡 Speaker:**
Mustafa Bhanpurawala, Solutions Engineer, Confluent

**Talk:**
Stream Processing with SQL

**Abstract:**
Stream Processing is no longer a niche; it is steadily becoming a necessity for major business use cases. Implementing stream processing in a simple and efficient manner is crucial. In this session, we will provide a walkthrough of two SQL-based stream processing options: ksqlDB and FlinkSQL. We will cover the core concepts for both services, including stream/table creation, real-time data joining, windowing, and more. Additionally, we will demonstrate hands-on queries to see how these concepts work in practice.

**Bio:**
Mustafa Bhanpurawala is a Solutions Engineer at Confluent as a part of the Shared Technical Services Team. He is passionate about making customers successful with their Data in Motion journey using Kafka. Prior to making a shift in his career as a Solutions Engineer, he was working as a Data Engineer specialized in extracting, transforming, and loading data from various sources, ensuring data quality and integrity throughout the process. His expertise extends to data architecture, ETL processes, and data modelling, contributing to the seamless flow of data for analytics and reporting.

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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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If you would like to speak or host our next event please let us know! community@[confluent.io](http://confluent.io/)

Jakarta Apache Kafka® Meetup by Confluent

Alfred

Dani Iqbal

Stream Processing with SQL

WeWork Revenue Tower

Hello everyone! Join us for our first **IN PERSON** Apache Kafka® x Apache Flink® meetup on December 7th 2024 from 11:00 am, hosted by Infoview Systems in Hyderabad!

**📍 Venue:**
Programmers.io India pvt ltd
6th floor, Block C
Vatika Business Centre
Divyasree Omega
Kondapur, Hyderabad 500084
Land mark next to Google

***Please do bring your ID as it will be required for you to enter the venue***

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**Agenda:**

* 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM: Introduction & Welcome
* 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM: Satya Sekhar Das Mandal, CTO, Infoview Systems
* 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM: Diptiman Raichaudhuri, Staff Developer Advocate, Confluent
* 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM : Lunch and Networking

*If you would like to speak at or host a meetup please let us know! community@[confluent.io](http://confluent.io/)*

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**💡 Speaker:**
Satya Sekhar Das Mandal, CTO, Infoview Systems

**Talk:**
The Future of IBMi in Event Streaming: Why Kafka is the Game-Changer

**Abstract:**
Demonstrate how Kafka will be helpful in IBMi event streaming

**Bio:**
Strategic Integration IT Professional over 20 years experience with Leadership / Technology Management background in global planning, capacity/ cost projects, technical architecture, Enterprise Integration, delivery management, & IT governance in various sectors. Strong record in creating robust IT architectures, Multisystem integrations and infrastructures; proven ability to bring the benefits of IT to solve business issues while managing costs and risks. Logical thinker noted for transforming IT organizations with support to global, enterprise wide infrastructure; utilizing strategic planning, creation of long-term road-maps.

Trusted Member of senior level team influencing focus on core business competencies, with feasibility analysis for proposed technology alternatives. Answerable to set overall track for the technology with the help of strategic forecast and valuation and possess thorough understanding of the SDLC with expertise in managing complete Project Management activities. Respected Technology Leader, with recorded success to capitalize on enterprise level technologies to product multimillion dollar savings.
[https://www.linkedin.com/in/satya-sekhar-das-mandal/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/satya-sekhar-das-mandal/)

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**💡 Speaker:**
Diptiman Raichaudhuri, Staff Developer Advocate, Confluent

**Talk:**
Pyflink Table API for non-JVM stream processing on a data streaming platform

**Abstract:**
The session explain what a data streaming platform is - data contracts, data quality rules, streaming catalogs.

This session would then explain the need for a unified stream processing engine and explains the architectural pillars of Apache Flink.As a code demo:This talk would demonstrate:

1. A kafka-python producer
2. A pyflink Table API transformation using streaming WINDOW functions
3. A Flink SQL transformation on Kafka message

**Bio:**
Staff Developer Advocate at Confluent, ex-AWS Data Analytics Specialist, ex-Google Cloud - Data platform specialist.

* Designed and implemented ‘Modern Data Platform’ for large scale enterprise use cases.
* Worked at the intersection of Data(Spark, Flink, Kafka, Kinesis,Redshift, Iceberg, Glue, Hive, Neo4j, Neptune) and AI(torch,sagemaker,vertex ai,kubeflow, LLMs) at cloud scale (AWS and Google Cloud).

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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.
As the classroom is a mask-on setting, please be reminded that masks should still be worn at all times unless actively eating or drinking
NOTE: We are unable to cater for any attendees under the age of 18.

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If you would like to speak or host our next event please let us know! community@[confluent.io](http://confluent.io/)

Hyderabad Apache Kafka® Meetup by Confluent

raviteja lanka

Prasad Gummadavelli

IN PERSON! Apache Kafka® Meetup Hyderabad - December 2024

Programmers.io India pvt ltd 

Hello everyone! Join us for an Apache Kafka® meetup on **Dec 10th from 5:30pm**, hosted by Microsoft Reactor in Sydney!

The address, agenda, and speaker information can be found below. See you there!

**📍Venue**:
Microsoft Reactor Sydney
Level 10, 11-33 York Street Sydney

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**🗓 Agenda:**

* 5:30pm: Doors open
* 5:30pm - 6:00pm: Pizza, Drinks, and Networking
* 6:00pm - 7:00pm: James Gollan, Senior Manager, Solutions Engineering ANZ, Confluent
* 7:00pm - 7:30pm: Additional Networking

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**💡 Speaker:**
James Gollan, Senior Manager, Solutions Engineering ANZ, Confluent

**Bio:**
James is a Senior Manager, Solutions Engineering ANZ at Confluent. His job involves discussing technical and business challenges with many large organisations, and determining the role that event streaming can play in meeting these challenges. Of particular interest to James is stream processing, how it can be used to build microservices and other applications with highly focussed data products, and how this all relates to data mesh.

**Talk:**
**Santa's Kafka Factory:** An End-to-End Look at Building an Event-Driven Application

**Abstract:**
It has been a great year of Kafka meetups. We have dug deep aspects of Kafka including scaling telemetry, mastering producer configs, Kafka with Rest and more!For this final meetup we are going to take a step back and take a look at how all the bits actually fit together to deliver an end-user experience. This 'big picture' is often a source of confusion for those new to event streaming.And if this seems familiar it is because we were meant to do this back in August!The demo will include:

\- a spring\-boot application that communicates with Kafka
\- a web front\-end using websockets\,
\- producing and consuming from Kafka topics
\- stream processing using Flink to add additional functionality

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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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If you would like to speak or host our next event please let us know! community@[confluent.io](http://confluent.io/)

Apache Kafka Sydney

Justin Mclean

Kai Chung Tang

IN PERSON Christmas Special! Santa's Apache Kafka® Factory

Microsoft Reactor Sydney

Hello everyone! Join us for an Apache Kafka® meetup on **December 10th** **from 5:30pm**, hosted by Zendesk in Melbourne!

The address, agenda, and speaker information can be found below. See you there!

**📍Venue**:
Zendesk
Level 13/550 Bourke St, Melbourne VIC 3000

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🗓 Agenda:

* 5:30pm: Doors open
* 5:30pm - 6:00pm: Pizza, Drinks, and Networking
* 6:00pm - 6:15pm: Frankie Chen, Staff Software Engineer, Zendesk
* 6:15pm - 6:30pm: Peter Nham, Staff Software Engineer, Zendesk
* 6:30pm - 6:40pm: Darragh Kennedy, Director of Engineering, Zendesk
* 6:40pm - 7:00pm: Simon Duff, Solutions Architect, Confluent
* 7:00pm - 7:30pm: Additional Q&A & Networking

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💡 Speaker:
Frankie Chen, Staff Software Engineer, Zendesk

Bio:
Frankie is a Staff Engineer at Zendesk, specialising in developing robust platforms on top of large-scale distributed systems such as Kafka and Kubernetes. With over five years of experience at Zendesk, Frankie has participated in numerous infrastructure projects, including the successful transformation of the Kafka platform from AWS bare metal to a fully Kubernetes-native ecosystem. Passionate about crafting tailored solutions, Frankie thrives on addressing the unique challenges faced by the organisation, ensuring that technology effectively meets the specific needs.

Talk:
Quorum Stability Is All You Need: Running KRaft on Kubernetes

Abstract:
In this talk, we’ll dive into how Zendesk runs Kafka's KRaft mode on Kubernetes, focusing on the strategies we use for maintaining quorum stability so as to ensure reliable operation and high availability.

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💡 Speaker:
Peter Nham, Staff Software Engineer, Zendesk

Bio:
I'm a Staff Engineer at Zendesk and over the last 3 years, I've been in the Kafka team where I've been a part of the big Kafka modernisation journey that's been going on. This has included migrating Kafka to Kubernetes, making Kafka resources self service and more recently migrating to KRaft. We're not only involved in maintaining and running Kafka but also with building out event streaming foundation apps at Zendesk. Other than Kafka, I'm also passionate about Scala and functional programming and Zendesk has been a great opportunity to combine my interests together.
Outside of work, I enjoy playing ultimate frisbee and discovering new board games.

Talk:
KRaft Migration Unplugged: Real-World Lessons from ZooKeeper to KRaft

Abstract:
At Zendesk, we embarked on the migration from ZooKeeper to KRaft shortly after its release. In this talk, I will share our journey through the migration process, discussing the lessons learned and the challenges we faced along the way. Hopefully this will help you with your own migrations and avoiding the obstacles that we encountered.

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💡 Speaker:
Darragh Kennedy, Director of Engineering, Zendesk

Bio:
Engineering Director with over 20 years of experience building Infrastructure, Cloud and Data platforms.

Talk:
Kafka Transformation End Line

Abstract:
We made it to the end of our Kafka platform transformation, hear about the good, the bad and the ugly of the multi-year project.

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💡 Speaker:
Simon Duff, Solutions Architect, Confluent

Bio:
Simon is a creative and inquisitive IT professional, with a Masters in Artificial Intelligence. He has extensive experience, having worked 7 years for Splunk Professional Services, and 3 years at Confluent, where he developed cutting-edge solutions for clients. He also has extensive expertise in Information Security. Simon is a valuable asset to any team, bringing his skills and experience to deliver the best results for clients.

Talk:
Confluent Cloud Chargeback dashboards

Abstract:
Enterprise Platforms that run Kafka may find themselves needing to charge different business units for using this shared Kafka resource. They need to be careful however, as the wrong selection of charge back may lead to clients leaving the platform or reducing how they use the platform, leading to less value for all business units. Choosing the right model can lead to an abundance of reusable data products, creating huge value for the enterprise.

In this discussion, we will look at different charge back models and how their selection drives different behavior for end users. We illustrate this by looking at the dashboards and models developed for a large Australian Financial Institution using Confluent Cloud

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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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If you would like to speak or host our next event please let us know! community@[confluent.io](http://confluent.io/)

Melbourne Apache Kafka® Meetup by Confluent

Darragh Kennedy

Pranav Goyal

IN PERSON! Apache Kafka® Meetup (December 2024)

Zendesk

Confluent

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