The lecture will be a dive into the popular Apache Kafka stream-processing software platform. We will explore the abstractions Kafka provides and the ecosystem that the Confluent platform brings around it.

Nice to have

The demo in the lecture would be done using the Apache Kafka Java client, so basic Java experience is required.

What will you learn

How to setup a local Kafka cluster that is scalable, robust and quick
How to build applications that can publish and subscribe to data
How to make a Kafka cluster in completely decoupled systems
What is the role of Kafka in the modern data distribution pipeline
Which are the core Kafka architectural concepts and components
Which are the Kafka developer APIs

Agenda

19:00 h: Registration

19:15 h: Introduction

What is Kafka

Use Cases

Kafka Fundamentals

Records
Producers & Consumers
Topics & Partitions
Offsets
Partitioning
Consumer Groups
Delivery Guarantees
Cool Features
Clients

Demo

20:30 h: Grab a drink, have a bite and network

Speakers

Vasil Nonchev - Software Development Lead - Java at MentorMate

Deniz Hashimov - Senior Java Developer at MentorMate

How to get here: https://goo.gl/RASq1b

If you have any trouble finding us, please call at 0896 754 069

Looking forward to meeting you!

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