Date
Wednesday, 17 Apr 2019 5:15 PM
5:15 PM Members arrive – Pizza, soft drinks and beer
6:00 PM Announcements & Recruiting Shoutouts
6:15 PM Speakers (25 min each)
Seeking speakers and sponsors: Contact us if you would like to speak at future events!
Agenda
1) Kafka 101 – Patrick Druley
Apache Kafka Fundamentals for Architects, Admins, and Developers!
2) Building a real-time CDC pipeline – Meher Bezawada
Using Kafka connect to load transactions from RDBMS source to Hadoop.
Bios:
1) Patrick Druley is a Systems Engineer at Confluent Inc, the Event Streaming Platform company. His career has focussed on databases, data warehousing and included various analytics and big data projects with companies across multiple industries while working at Teradata and Oracle. In addition to talking to folks about Apache Kafka and Stream Processing every day at Confluent, he is also the Confluent Cloud subject matter expert for the East team. Patrick is an Ohio native, currently based out of Medina, OH.
2) Meher Bezawada is a Sr. Consultant at Navigator Management Partners where he is a Hadoop Technical Architect and Developer. Over his tenure, Meher has worked with a number of clients to implement and optimize their Hadoop deployments and help them maximize the value of their investment.
