Meet the people building real-time systems.
Tech talks, conferences, and meetups where you can learn how platform teams run Apache Kafka, Flink, and Iceberg in production.
Upcoming
Tech Talk Journey to an open lakehouse: real-world lessons from streaming Kafka into Apache Iceberg
Karel Sague, Staff Software Engineer at Factor House, shares real-world lessons from migrating a production data platform from Snowflake to Apache Iceberg, including streaming Kafka into Iceberg with Kafka Connect and the schema, partitioning, and migration challenges involved.
Meetup Apache Kafka Meetup - Melbourne - August 2026
Join us for an Apache Kafka x Apache Flink meetup in Melbourne, with talks on streaming Kafka into Apache Iceberg and on Kafka, Flink, and GenAI, followed by networking.
Tech Talk Rethinking your Kafka footprint: consolidation, migration, and cost control
Karel Sague, Staff Software Engineer at Factor House, walks through a practical methodology for cutting Kafka costs by consolidating, splitting, and migrating clusters without downtime or data loss.
User Group Kafka User Group - Europe
A free online session for Kafka practitioners across Europe. Each session kicks off with a lightning talk from a community member, followed by open group discussion — a chance to share what you are building, work through challenges together, and connect with engineers facing the same problems.
User Group Kafka User Group - Americas
A free online session for Kafka practitioners. Each session kicks off with a lightning talk from a community member, followed by open group discussion — a chance to share what you are building, work through challenges together, and connect with engineers facing the same problems.
User Group Kafka User Group - Asia Pacific
A free online session for Kafka practitioners across Asia Pacific. Each session kicks off with a lightning talk from a community member, followed by open group discussion — a chance to share what you are building, work through challenges together, and connect with engineers facing the same problems.
Past events
User Group Kafka User Group - Americas
A free online session for Kafka practitioners. Each session kicks off with a lightning talk from a community member, followed by open group discussion — a chance to share what you are building, work through challenges together, and connect with engineers facing the same problems.
User Group Kafka User Group - Asia Pacific
A free online session for Kafka practitioners across Asia Pacific. Each session kicks off with a lightning talk from a community member, followed by open group discussion — a chance to share what you are building, work through challenges together, and connect with engineers facing the same problems.
Webinar Things that go bump in the night: Kafka operational issues and how to survive them
Chad Harris, Solutions Architect at Factor House, walks through real-world Kafka operational failures and the debugging workflows that actually help when the system stops behaving the way you expect.