Apache Kafka Meetup

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Event details

Date:
12 February 2026
Time:
5:30pm to 7:30pm
Location:
Factor House, 394 High Street, Northcote, Victoria, 3070
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We're co-hosting the Melbourne Kafka and Flink community with Confluent at Factor House on Wednesday, 12th February from 5:30pm.

As the team behind Kpow and Flex, we're always keen to bring together local practitioners working with streaming data. Come along for pizza, drinks, and two great talks from the community.

Agenda

  • 5:30pm: Doors open, pizza, drinks, and networking
  • 6:00pm: Talk 1
  • 6:30pm: Talk 2
  • 7:00pm: More networking

Talks

Incremental Microservices Migration Using Change Data Capture (CDC) - Haswin Vidanage, Senior Product Engineer at Papercut Software

How teams can migrate to microservices without disrupting their roadmaps. Haswin has over ten years of experience in full-stack development and microservices architecture.

All You Need to Know About Kafka Transactions - Zhengwen Peng, Staff Technical Support Engineer at Confluent

Why we need Kafka transactions, how they work under the hood, and what developers should know. Zhengwen has deep expertise in data streaming with Flink and Kafka.

Location

Factor House, 394 High Street, Northcote

See you there!