Ashfaq Ahmed

Talks

Meetup talks on Kafka and Kafka Connect, each built around one concrete pipeline and a live demo.

Ashfaq presenting a slide titled "Kafka: where every order lives", showing three brokers replicating partitions, to a seated audience

Apache Kafka Meetup Hyderabad

Kafka, Demystified: How Your Swiggy Order Reaches Everyone Who Needs It

One food order has to reach the restaurant, a delivery partner, payments and your notifications. This talk follows that single order through Kafka, Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, Kafka Streams and Confluent Cloud, so they read as one connected system instead of five tools, and builds the pipeline live.

  • Kafka
  • Kafka Connect
  • Schema Registry
  • Kafka Streams
  • CDC

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Ashfaq at a lectern beside a screen showing a resources slide, speaking to a room of seated attendees

AWS User Group Hyderabad

From Kafka to S3: Streaming Data Pipelines with Kafka Connect

How do you get streaming data from Kafka into Amazon S3 without writing and babysitting custom consumer code? Kafka basics, what Kafka Connect is and why it exists, then a deep dive into the S3 Sink connector from someone who works on it, ending with a pipeline built live.

  • Kafka
  • Kafka Connect
  • S3 Sink
  • AWS

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