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Thursday, September 25th, 10:00 a.m. PDT | 1:00 p.m. EDT
Thursday, 25 September, 14:00 BST
Kafka Gone Wrong: How to Avoid Data Disasters
When Apache Kafka fails, it fails big — and the business impact is often immediate and severe. The consequences go beyond underperformance; misconfigured Kafka implementations can lead to security breaches, system outages, and significant operational disruption, bringing your entire streaming data infrastructure to a halt.
As some teams have learned the hard way, maintaining a stable, high-performance Kafka environment demands a high level of expertise and ongoing “care and feeding.” It’s essential for companies that depend on their streaming data pipelines for revenue to understand how to monitor their deployments, scale and upgrade strategically, and avoid Kafka mistakes that could be catastrophic.
About the Webinar
On September 25, experts from Perforce OpenLogic will share insights gained from working with customers across various industries, from aerospace and finance to retail, to tackle their toughest Kafka challenges. You’ll hear about:
- Critical Implementation Pitfalls: What caused some of the biggest Kafka messes we’ve seen (and how we fixed them).
- Assessing the Health of Your Kafka Deployments: How to identify issues before they lead to slow response times or worse (i.e. data loss, downtime).
- Avoiding Rushed Upgrades: Why staying on stable LTS versions can save your organization from costly migration headaches.
- And more!
Presenters
Matthew Weier O’Phinney
Matthew Weier O’Phinney is the Principal Product Manager at Perforce OpenLogic and Zend, where he focuses on creating the tools and support developers need to build and deploy their applications. He has been using and contributing to open source software since 2002, counting a patch to the Blackbox window manager as his first public OSS contribution.
Matthew has led large open source projects, including Zend Framework, which he started developing on before its first public release, leading the project from 2009 to 2019. He has also contributed to standards bodies, has advised and participated in open source foundations such as The PHP Foundation, and is the Project Lead for the Laminas Project. He has contributed to many open source projects and communities, many of which can be found on github and his personal website.
Tendai Munetsi
Tendai has over 25 years of experience as a software developer utilizing languages like C, C++, and Java. He has acted as an architect and development leader in the implementation of a number of mission-critical systems for companies in a range of industries. He is a Sun-certified Java Developer and a Certified ScrumMaster.
Joe Carder
Joe has been working in IT for the past 25 years, with 15 of those years specializing in web and application based enterprise solutions. He focuses currently on Apache Web Server and J2EE technologies.