{"id":5311,"date":"2024-10-19T21:29:48","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T21:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5311"},"modified":"2026-04-02T18:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T18:40:15","slug":"event-driven-tech-at-ibm-techxchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5311","title":{"rendered":"Event-driven tech at IBM TechXchange"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week, I’m at IBM TechXchange<\/a><\/strong>: our annual technical learning conference. <\/p>\n

Our other big annual event Think<\/a> has a business focus, but TechXchange is for technologists to advance their skills and expertise.<\/p>\n

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. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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!<\/p>\n

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On Monday…<\/h2>\n

Processing streams of events with Flink<\/h3>\n

Lab 1882 : 1:30pm<\/strong> – Get hands-on with Apache Flink, and use it to process streams of events from Apache Kafka topics.<\/p>\n

Build a resilient multi-cluster event-driven architecture with Kafka<\/h3>\n

Lab 1879 : 3:45pm<\/strong> – Get hands-on with Mirror Maker 2, building different resilient Kafka topologies that span regions.<\/p>\n

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On Tuesday…<\/h2>\n

Modernizing Your Business Using DataPower<\/h3>\n

Lab 1726 : 11:15am<\/strong> – Use DataPower to bridge between Kafka and other protocols like AMQP, HTTP, and IBM MQ.<\/p>\n

Transforming Integration to a Micro-services and Event Streaming Architecture at Jaguar Land Rover<\/h3>\n

Presentation 3008 : 11:30am<\/strong> – Learn how JLR have embraced event-streaming as part of a migration to a cloud-first architecture.<\/p>\n

Extend Your Event Driven Architecture to the Edge<\/h3>\n

Presentation 3421 : 3:00pm<\/strong> – Learn about hybrid architectures that bring Internet of Things devices together with enterprise event-driven systems.<\/p>\n

Putting Events to Work, with IBM Event Automation<\/h3>\n

Presentation 3160 : 4:30pm<\/strong> – Learn how Event Automation can help your business leverage Kafka & Flink, and accelerate your event-driven projects.<\/p>\n

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On Wednesday…<\/h2>\n

Strengths and Subtleties of Apache Flink SQL for Event Processing<\/h3>\n

Presentation 3162 : 8:30am<\/strong> – Learn how Flink SQL makes it easier to create event stream processing jobs, but has subtleties such as windows & watermarks.<\/p>\n

Manage your Kafka topics as asynchronous APIs<\/h3>\n

Lab 1876 : 9:00am<\/strong> – 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.<\/p>\n

Ask-me-Anything on Apache Kafka, Apache Flink and IBM Event Automation<\/h3>\n

AMA 3794 : 1:30pm<\/strong> – Bring your questions about all things event-driven!<\/p>\n

Journey to Event-Driven Government Services<\/h3>\n

Presentation 3620 : 3:00pm<\/strong> – Hear the story of a government IT organisation’s adoption of event-driven architecture.<\/p>\n

Use real-time MQ transaction data to capitalize on time-sensitive revenue opportunities<\/h3>\n

Lab 1790 : 3:45pm<\/strong> – Detect time-critical situations in IBM MQ transaction data using Apache Flink.<\/p>\n

IBM Event Automation demo<\/h3>\n

Demo 4296 : 4:30pm<\/strong> – Watch me demonstrate IBM’s event-driven integration capabilities.<\/p>\n

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On Thursday…<\/h2>\n

Kafka Topic Design, Future Proofing your EDA Patterns<\/h3>\n

Presentation 3161 : 10:00am<\/strong> – Learn how capturing topic requirements at design time can reduce the likelihood (and complication!) of having to make changes.<\/p>\n

Enhance your event processing flows with watsonx<\/h3>\n

Lab 1883 : 1:30pm<\/strong> – 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.<\/p>\n

See you there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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