Sep 23–26, 2019

Michael Noll
Technologist, Office of the CTO, Confluent

Michael Noll is the technologist of the office of the CTO at Confluent, the company founded by the creators of Apache Kafka. Previously, Michael was the technical lead of DNS operator Verisign’s big data platform, where he grew the Hadoop, Kafka, and Storm-based infrastructure from zero to petabyte-sized production clusters spanning multiple data centers—one of the largest big data infrastructures in Europe at the time. He’s a well-known tech blogger in the big data community. In his spare time, Michael serves as a technical reviewer for publishers such as Manning and is a frequent speaker at international conferences, including Strata, ApacheCon, and ACM SIGIR. Michael holds a PhD in computer science.

Sessions

1:15pm–1:55pm Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Location: 1A 15/16

Now you see me; now you compute: Building event-driven architectures with Apache Kafka

Data Engineering and Architecture

Secondary topics: Data, Analytics, and AI Architecture, Deep dive into specific tools, platforms, or frameworks

Michael Noll (Confluent)

Would you cross the street with traffic information that's a minute old? Certainly not. Modern businesses have the same needs. Michael Noll explores why and how you can use Kafka and its growing ecosystem to build elastic event-driven architectures. Specifically, you look at Kafka as the storage layer, at Kafka Connect for data integration, and at Kafka Streams and KSQL as the compute layer. Read more.