Dave Klein
Developer Advocate with Confluent
After 28 years as a developer, architect, project manager (recovered), author, trainer, conference organizer, and homeschooling dad, Dave Klein landed his dream job as a developer advocate at Confluent. Dave is marveling in and eager to help others explore the amazing world of event streaming with Apache Kafka.Presentations
The Wonderful World of Apache Kafka
8:30 AM MDT
Apache Kafka is the core of an amazing ecosystem of tools and frameworks that enable us to get more value from our data. Let's take a journey through this wonderful world and see what we can learn.
In this session, we'll have a gentle introduction to Apache Kafka, and then a survey of some of the more popular components in the Kafka ecosystem. We will be looking at the Kafka Producer and Consumer libraries, Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams, the Confluent Schema Registry, and ksqlDB. You will leave loaded with ideas of ways to put Kafka to use in your organization, and a list of resources to help you on your journey.
Harness the Power of Data in Motion with Kafka Streams
10:30 AM MDT
Some say that data is the new oil, and like oil, data needs to be collected, refined, and distributed to gain value from it. For years we've collected data into tankers called databases, and when we had enough, we shipped batches of it to be refined by some process. Then when that was done, we'd make it available to end-users. However, unlike oil, data tends to lose its value the longer we wait to use it. (Data is the new milk?)
So, what if we could hook up a pipeline* to the source of the oil, er… data, and transform it in near real time, on its way to the end-users? That's precisely what we can do with Apache Kafka and Kafka Streams. In this session, we’ll see how we can use Kafka Streams to enrich, aggregate, summarize, and otherwise transform our data while it is flowing through our systems.
- These pipelines are completely harmless to the environment.
Implementing Event-Driven Architectures
1:30 PM MDT
Event-driven architectures look great on paper (or a whiteboard), but it's easy to run into snags when trying to implement them. In this talk, we'll see how tools from the Apache Kafka ecosystem can make this task easier and a lot more fun!
In this session, with Apache Kafka as the backbone, we'll use Micronaut to implement an event-driven architecture that is loosely coupled and easily extensible. Then we'll extend it with a Kafka Streams application without affecting any of the existing applications.
Books
Grails 2: A Quick-Start Guide
by Dave Klein and Ben Klein
Grails is a full-stack web development framework that enables you to build complete web applications in a fraction of the time and with less code than other frameworks. Grails uses the principle of convention over configuration and the dynamic Groovy programming language.
This revised and updated new edition shows you how to use Grails by iteratively building a unique, working application. By the time you're done, you'll have built and deployed a real, functioning website. Using this hands-on, pragmatic approach, you'll explore topics such as Ajax in Grails, custom tags, and plugins. You'll dig into Grails' powerful view technology, Groovy Server Pages, and see how you can easily leverage the help offered by scaffolding to create custom user interfaces faster than you would have thought possible. Along the way, you'll learn about domain classes, controllers, and GSP views. And you'll see how Grails enables you to use powerful frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate.
With Grails, you can get a lot done with little effort. With this book, you'll get a lot done as well. Get started with Grails today.
What You Need:
Grails 2 will run on any machine that supports Java. Grails applications can be deployed on any Java Servlet container, including Tomcat, Jetty, WebLogic, JBoss, and Websphere.
Grails: A Quick-Start Guide
by Dave Klein
Grails is a full stack web development framework that enables you to build complete web applications in a fraction of the time and with less code than other frameworks.
In Grails: A Quick-Start Guide, you'll see how to use Grails by iteratively building an unique, working application. By the time we're done, you'll have built and deployed a real, functioning website.
Along the way, we'll learn about domain classes, controllers, and GSP views. We'll see how Grails allows us to use powerful frameworks like Spring and Hibernate without even knowing it.
Using this hands-on, pragmatic approach, we'll explore topics such as AJAX in Grails, custom tags, and plugins. We'll dig into Grails' powerful view technology, Groovy Server Pages, and see how we can easily leverage the help given to us by scaffolding to create custom user interfaces faster than you would have thought possible.
With Grails, you can get a lot done with little effort. With this book, you'll get a lot done as well. It's time to bring the fun back into web programming. Get started with Grails today.