Danica began her career as a software engineer in data visualization and warehousing with a business intelligence team where she served as a point-person for standards and best practices in data visualization across her company. In 2018, Danica moved to San Francisco and pivoted to backend engineering with a derivatives data team which was responsible for building and maintaining the infrastructure that processes millions of financial market data per second in near real-time. Her first project on this team involved Kafka Streams – she never looked back. Danica now works as a Developer Advocate with Confluent where she helps others get the most out of their event-driven pipelines. Outside of work, Danica is passionate about sustainability, increasing diversity in the technical community, and keeping her many houseplants alive. She can be found on Twitter, tweeting about tech, plants, and baking @TheDanicaFine.
Brick-by-Brick: Exploring the Elements of Apache Kafka®
Do you wish that learning Apache Kafka were as easy, intuitive, and fun as building your favorite LEGO® set? Why shouldn’t it be!? Let’s rebuild the world of Kafka brick-by-brick starting from the basic building blocks of the technology. We’ll leave no plate unturned as we introduce events, brokers, topics, and partitions––fundamental elements that affect how data is stored inside of this powerful distributed event streaming platform. From there, explore the wider inventory of pieces in the ecosystem––APIs and tools like Kafka Streams and Kafka Connect––that you can use to migrate, stream, and transform your data. By the end of the session, you’ll know the ins and outs of the components that form the basis of Kafka, how they ‘click’ together, and what you can build with them. At that point, only one question should remain––what will YOU make with Kafka?
2024 Workshops
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JConf.dev 2024 sessions
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Timeline
- January 1
2024 Kickoff
Call for Papers, Early Bird tickets sales (first 100 only, then prices +$100), sponsor sales, scholarship program all open
- January 31
CFP Close
CFP Closes
- March 1
Speakers Announced!
Speakers announced, regular ticket sales
- July 1
Late ticket sales
Late ticket sales, order now to get a swanky badge and tshirt
- September 24
Workshop day!
JConf.dev 2024 starts with workshop day
- September 25
The big show!
JConf.dev 2024 begins!
