Pushing Messages with Apache Kafka
Summary
Kafka is used for building real-time data pipelines and streaming apps. It is horizontally scalable, fault-tolerant, wicked fast, all this built on top of Scala and Apache Zookeeper. In this talk we will see how to start running Kafka easily without being intimidated by all the new words and lingo. What's more we will discuss Kafka's performance and performance tunning and how well it performs comparing to other similar products on the market. Futhermore we will touch how to implement Apache Kafka into your existing ELK infrastructure.
Speaker
Hristo Mohamed really likes system administration and has decided to make this his main activity during the day, next to sitting on the couch watching 20 minute long comedy TV series. He works at CERN in the LHCb Online Team as a System Administrator and mainly deals with making things run as smoothly as possible. His main activities is commiting and maitaining the configuraton management of the LHCb Online Cluster, as well as dealing with monitoring the said cluster. He also tries to make sure that Linux is on its best behavior.
