Welcome to our meetup for Kubernetes and Cloud Native Computing Louisville!

When it comes to choosing a distributed streaming platform for real-time data pipelines, everyone knows the answer – Apache Kafka! And when it comes to deploying applications at scale without needing to integrate different pieces of infrastructure yourself, the answer nowadays is increasingly Kubernetes. However, with all great things, the devil is truly in the details. While Kubernetes does provide all the building blocks that are needed, a lot of thought is required to truly create an enterprise-grade Kafka platform that can be used in production.

In this technical deep dive, Viktor will go through challenges and pitfalls of managing Kafka on Kubernetes as well as the goals and lessons learned from the development of the Confluent Operator for Kubernetes.

6:30 - 6:45 Social/Food
6:45 - 7:00 Updates/Open Forum
7:00 - 8:00 Presentation
8:00 - 8.15 Social/Wrap-up

Speaker bio:

Viktor Gamov is a Developer Advocate at Confluent, the company that makes an event streaming platform based on Apache Kafka.
Back in his consultancy days, Viktor developed comprehensive expertise in building enterprise application architectures using open source technologies.

He enjoys helping architects and developers to design and develop low latency, scalable and highly available distributed systems.
He is a professional conference speaker on distributed systems, streaming data, JVM and DevOps topics, and is regular on events including JavaOne, Devoxx, OSCON, QCon, and others.

He co-authored O’Reilly’s «Enterprise Web Development.»

He blogs at http://gamov.io and co-hosts DevRelRad.io.
Follow Viktor on Twitter @gamussa, where he posts there about gym life, food, opensource, and, of course, Kafka and Confluent!

About Confluent

Confluent, founded by the original creators of Apache Kafka®, pioneered the enterprise-ready event streaming platform. With Confluent, organizations benefit from the first event streaming platform built for the enterprise with the ease-of-use, scalability, security and flexibility required by the most discerning global companies to run their business in real time. Companies leading their respective industries have realized success with this new platform paradigm to transform their architectures to streaming from batch processing, spanning on-premises and multi-cloud environments. Backed by Benchmark, Index Ventures and Sequoia Capital, Confluent is headquartered in Palo Alto and London with offices globally.

About Contino

Contino is a global technical consultancy who specialize in helping highly-regulated enterprises transform faster, modernizing their way of working.
We're experienced and referenceable experts in DevOps and cloud, transforming people, processes and technology to enable the rapid digital transformation that success demands in today's accelerating marketplace. More info at https://www.contino.io/.