Meetup

Modern Kafka apps: Customer 360, Real-time AI, & data streaming for enterprises

September 16, 2024
Austin

Join us for a focused meetup on using Apache Kafka to address key data challenges in today’s enterprises. Experts from SAS x Lenses.io, Bytewax, and ShadowTraffic will discuss approaches to accelerating, building real-time ML/AI systems, and improving stream processing performance.

Connect with professionals and explore practical strategies in data streaming.

Guess who!? 🐝

Zander Matheson
CEO, FOUNDER
Zander is a seasoned data engineer who founded and currently heads Bytewax. He has worked in the data space since 2014 at Heroku, GitHub, and an NLP startup. Before that, he attended business school at UT Austin and HEC Paris in Europe.

When? Where? FREE!

📅 September 16, 2024

📍 Hold Out Brewing

1208 West 4th Street, Austin, TX

Sep 15, 2024, 5:00 PM (PST)talk

Intelligence, Online: Designing Real-time ML/AI Systems for a Streaming World.

Zander will cover the rising importance of streaming data in an increasingly ML/AI-driven world, including architecture, a case study, and a short demo of how Bytewax is used to develop real-time machine learning systems.


The full agenda ⬇️

Part 1 - SAS: Enhancing Customer 360 on Kafka with Lenses SAS needed to optimize Kafka cluster management amidst changes in cloud operations. Discover how this leading SaaS analytics company accelerated product time-to-market, like CI360, by providing +2000 developers with Kafka access and observability via Lenses.

Speakers: Randy Wilcox, Global Leader, Data Platform Technologies, SAS Cloud. Subhash Donthineni: Manager, Data Platform Technologies, SAS Cloud.

Part 2 - Bytewax: Real-Time ML/AI Systems for Streaming Data

Part 3 - ShadowTraffic: Testing Stream Processors with Synthetic Data Learn how to test Kafka, Flink, and Spark with deterministic synthetic workloads, using continuous data streams that mimic real-world conditions. This session covers testing techniques like stable event ordering and deterministic randomness.

Speaker: Michael Drogalis: Founder of ShadowTraffic, synthetic data generator service, and former founder of a stream-native data warehouse acquired by Confluent.

Speakers:
  • Zander Matheson
    CEO, FOUNDER