Making developers productive on Kafka requires giving self-service access. But even something as seemingly straightforward as Topic creation is not so easy, and in some cases can lead to catastrophe.
In this talk, we’ll share and demonstrate different approaches for developers to safely create Kafka Topics whilst sharing a few war stories of what can go wrong along the way.
Presenter
Andrew Stevenson
DataMountaineerAndrew Stevenson is CTO at DataMountaineer. Andrew focuses on providing real-time data pipelines allowing reactive decision making, streaming analytics and big data integration. He has extensive experience with Kafka, Flume, Spark, Impala, HBase and Cassandra backed by many years of Data Warehousing experience.
With his team at DataMountaineer, he helps in building out the Stream Processing ecosystem, developing multiple connectors and tooling around Apache Kafka.
Presenter
Marios Andreopoulos
LensesMarios is an Ops mastermind, leading his team of engineers and Lenses customers to get the most out of their streaming data and applications. As the Head of Engineering Operations at Lenses.io from day one, Marios has fueled the development of Lenses from a set of open-source tooling to a full enterprise DataOps experience for Kafka. Here he shares stories from the trenches of Topic creation, including common mistakes and valuable lessons learned.