This week, I’m at IBM TechXchange: our annual technical learning conference.
Our other big annual event Think has a business focus, but TechXchange is for technologists to advance their skills and expertise.
There are thousands of presentations, demos, workshops and hands-on labs to choose from, but naturally the most interesting ones will be about event-driven architectures and event stream processing technologies. 😉
In this post, I’ll share a few of our sessions from each day – if you’re at TechXchange this week, I hope to see you at some of these!
On Monday…
Processing streams of events with Flink
Lab 1882 : 1:30pm – Get hands-on with Apache Flink, and use it to process streams of events from Apache Kafka topics.
Build a resilient multi-cluster event-driven architecture with Kafka
Lab 1879 : 3:45pm – Get hands-on with Mirror Maker 2, building different resilient Kafka topologies that span regions.
On Tuesday…
Modernizing Your Business Using DataPower
Lab 1726 : 11:15am – Use DataPower to bridge between Kafka and other protocols like AMQP, HTTP, and IBM MQ.
Transforming Integration to a Micro-services and Event Streaming Architecture at Jaguar Land Rover
Presentation 3008 : 11:30am – Learn how JLR have embraced event-streaming as part of a migration to a cloud-first architecture.
Extend Your Event Driven Architecture to the Edge
Presentation 3421 : 3:00pm – Learn about hybrid architectures that bring Internet of Things devices together with enterprise event-driven systems.
Putting Events to Work, with IBM Event Automation
Presentation 3160 : 4:30pm – Learn how Event Automation can help your business leverage Kafka & Flink, and accelerate your event-driven projects.
On Wednesday…
Strengths and Subtleties of Apache Flink SQL for Event Processing
Presentation 3162 : 8:30am – Learn how Flink SQL makes it easier to create event stream processing jobs, but has subtleties such as windows & watermarks.
Manage your Kafka topics as asynchronous APIs
Lab 1876 : 9:00am – Get hands-on with all aspects of managing Kafka topics as asynchronous APIs, creating a catalog of topics, and sharing them using controls such as schema validation, rate limiting, and redaction.
Ask-me-Anything on Apache Kafka, Apache Flink and IBM Event Automation
AMA 3794 : 1:30pm – Bring your questions about all things event-driven!
Journey to Event-Driven Government Services
Presentation 3620 : 3:00pm – Hear the story of a government IT organisation’s adoption of event-driven architecture.
Use real-time MQ transaction data to capitalize on time-sensitive revenue opportunities
Lab 1790 : 3:45pm – Detect time-critical situations in IBM MQ transaction data using Apache Flink.
IBM Event Automation demo
Demo 4296 : 4:30pm – Watch me demonstrate IBM’s event-driven integration capabilities.
On Thursday…
Kafka Topic Design, Future Proofing your EDA Patterns
Presentation 3161 : 10:00am – Learn how capturing topic requirements at design time can reduce the likelihood (and complication!) of having to make changes.
Enhance your event processing flows with watsonx
Lab 1883 : 1:30pm – Get hands-on using artificial intelligence to process Kafka event streams – classifying events, deriving additional properties for events, and summarising a stream of events over time.
See you there!
Tags: apachekafka, ibmeventstreams, IBMTechXchange, kafka