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Join us for an Apache Kafka® x Kong meetup on Thursday, March 27th from 6:00pm in London hosted by TurinTech AI!

📍Venue: TurinTech AI 1 Finsbury Ave, City of London, London EC2M 2PF · London

IMPORTANT: If you RSVP on the this page, you don't need to RSVP on Kong London meetup page.

🗓 Agenda:

• 6:00pm: Doors open
• 6:00pm – 6:30pm: Food/Drinks and networking
• 6:30pm - 7:00pm: TurinTech AI / Welcome
• 7:00pm - 7:45pm: Johannes Brännström, Staff Solutions Engineer, Kong
• 7:45pm - 8:30pm: Harry Kimpel, Principal Developer Relations Engineer, New Relic
• 8:30pm - 9:00pm: Additional Q&A and Networking

💡 Speaker One: Johannes Brännström, Staff Solutions Engineer, Kong

Title of Talk: Extending the worlds most used API platform to Kafka -- Why it matters, what's here today, what's coming and how to learn more.

Abstract: In this talk, we’ll explore how Kong facilitates the way Kafka users interact with both synchronous and asynchronous APIs. Through the lens of example companies, we'll showcase how Kong helps manage and optimize their API ecosystems, balancing the needs for real-time event streaming with traditional API patterns. Attendees will gain an understanding of Kong’s current capabilities for Kafka integration, highlighting key features that enable smooth API management, enhanced scalability, and reliability. We'll also offer ways for you to get first-hand experience. Looking ahead, we’ll share exciting developments on the horizon, including upcoming features, enhancements that will further empower Kafka users as well as learn more.

Bio: Joining Kong from MongoDB & Red Hat Johannes is passionate about agile, modern application architecture and continuous delivery in all areas required to build great software.

💡 Speaker Two: Harry Kimpel, Principal Developer Relations Engineer, New Relic

Title of Talk: Unlock full end-to-end tracing through Kong and Kafka with OpenTelemetry

Abstract: Ideally, you should be using distributed tracing to trace requests through your system, but Kafka decouples producers and consumers, which means there are no direct transactions to trace between them. Kafka also uses asynchronous processes, which have implicit, not explicit, dependencies. Another key component of such an architecture is securing and exposing endpoints with a powerful platform such as Kong. All of this makes it challenging to understand how your microservices are working together.

However, it is possible to observe your Kong Gateway interactions and Kafka-based applications with distributed tracing and OpenTelemetry. You can then analyze and visualize your traces in an open source distributed tracing tool like Jaeger or a full observability platform like New Relic. In this talk I will leverage a simple application to show how you can achieve this.

Bio: Passionate software craftsman with 25+ years experience in a broad spectrum of development technologies and platforms. Mostly focusing on .NET/C#, the Microsoft development stack and cloud-native software architectures. Key focus also on Microsoft Azure as well as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Observability, monitoring and securing these environments are key aspects. Currently extremely interested in the Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr).

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Join us for an Apache Kafka® x Kong meetup on Thursday, March 27th from 6:00pm in London hosted by TurinTech AI!

Venue: TurinTech AI, 1 Finsbury Ave, City of London, London EC2M 2PF · London

Agenda:

• 6:00pm: Doors open
• 6:00pm – 6:30pm: Food/Drinks and networking
• 6:30pm - 7:00pm: TurinTech AI / Welcome
• 7:00pm - 7:45pm: Johannes Brännström, Staff Solutions Engineer, Kong
• 7:45pm - 8:30pm: Harry Kimpel, Principal Developer Relations Engineer, New Relic
• 8:30pm - 9:00pm: Additional Q&A and Networking

Title of Talk 1: Extending the worlds most used API platform to Kafka -- Why it matters, what's here today, what's coming and how to learn more.

Abstract: In this talk, we’ll explore how Kong facilitates the way Kafka users interact with both synchronous and asynchronous APIs. Through the lens of example companies, we'll showcase how Kong helps manage and optimize their API ecosystems, balancing the needs for real-time event streaming with traditional API patterns. Attendees will gain an understanding of Kong’s current capabilities for Kafka integration, highlighting key features that enable smooth API management, enhanced scalability, and reliability. We'll also offer ways for you to get first-hand experience. Looking ahead, we’ll share exciting developments on the horizon, including upcoming features, enhancements that will further empower Kafka users as well as learn more.

Speaker One: Bio: Johannes Brännström, Staff Solutions Engineer, Kong. Joining Kong from MongoDB & Red Hat Johannes is passionate about agile, modern application architecture and continuous delivery in all areas required to build great software

Title of Talk 2: Unlock full end-to-end tracing through Kong and Kafka with OpenTelemetry

Abstract: Ideally, you should be using distributed tracing to trace requests through your system, but Kafka decouples producers and consumers, which means there are no direct transactions to trace between them. Kafka also uses asynchronous processes, which have implicit, not explicit, dependencies. Another key component of such an architecture is securing and exposing endpoints with a powerful platform such as Kong. All of this makes it challenging to understand how your microservices are working together. However, it is possible to observe your Kong Gateway interactions and Kafka-based applications with distributed tracing and OpenTelemetry. You can then analyze and visualize your traces in an open source distributed tracing tool like Jaeger or a full observability platform like New Relic. In this talk I will leverage a simple application to show how you can achieve this.

Speaker Two Bio: Harry Kimpel, Principal Developer Relations Engineer, New Relic.

Passionate software craftsman with 25+ years experience in a broad spectrum of development technologies and platforms. Mostly focusing on .NET/C#, the Microsoft development stack and cloud-native software architectures. Key focus also on Microsoft Azure as well as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Observability, monitoring and securing these environments are key aspects. Currently extremely interested in the Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr).

We are thrilled to welcome you to our in-person Meetup in London in collaboration with Confluent! The event will be hosted by TurinTech AI.

When March 27, 18:00 - 21:00

Where 1 Finsbury Ave, London EC2M 2PF

Agenda 18:00 - 18:30 Doors open 18:00 - 18:30 Food & Drinks and Networking 18:30 - 19:00 TurinTech AI / Welcome 19:00 - 19:45 [Talk 1] Extending the worlds most used API platform to Kafka -- Why it matters, what's here today, what's coming and how to learn more by Johannes Brännström (Staff Solutions Engineer, Kong) 19:45 - 20:30 [Talk 2] Unlock full end-to-end tracing through Kong and Kafka with OpenTelemetry from Harry Kimpel (Principal Developer Relations Engineer, New Relic) 20:30 - 21:00 Additional Q&A and Networking

Talks 1) Extending the worlds most used API platform to Kafka -- Why it matters, what's here today, what's coming and how to learn more In this talk, we’ll explore how Kong facilitates the way Kafka users interact with both synchronous and asynchronous APIs. Through the lens of example companies, we'll showcase how Kong helps manage and optimize their API ecosystems, balancing the needs for real-time event streaming with traditional API patterns. Attendees will gain an understanding of Kong’s current capabilities for Kafka integration, highlighting key features that enable smooth API management, enhanced scalability, and reliability. We'll also offer ways for you to get first-hand experience. Looking ahead, we’ll share exciting developments on the horizon, including upcoming features, enhancements that will further empower Kafka users as well as learn more.

2) Unlock full end-to-end tracing through Kong and Kafka with OpenTelemetry Ideally, you should be using distributed tracing to trace requests through your system, but Kafka decouples producers and consumers, which means there are no direct transactions to trace between them. Kafka also uses asynchronous processes, which have implicit, not explicit, dependencies. Another key component of such an architecture is securing and exposing endpoints with a powerful platform such as Kong. All of this makes it challenging to understand how your microservices are working together.

However, it is possible to observe your Kong Gateway interactions and Kafka-based applications with distributed tracing and OpenTelemetry. You can then analyze and visualize your traces in an open source distributed tracing tool like Jaeger or a full observability platform like New Relic. In this talk I will leverage a simple application to show how you can achieve this.

Speakers Johannes Brännström (Staff Solutions Engineer, Kong) Joining Kong from MongoDB & Red Hat Johannes is passionate about agile, modern application architecture and continuous delivery in all areas required to build great software.highly available.

Harry Kimpel (Principal Developer Relations Engineer, New Relic) Passionate software craftsman with 25+ years experience in a broad spectrum of development technologies and platforms. Mostly focusing on .NET/C#, the Microsoft development stack and cloud-native software architectures. Key focus also on Microsoft Azure as well as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Observability, monitoring and securing these environments are key aspects. Currently extremely interested in the Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr).

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Harry Kimpel: By leveraging tools like Jaeger and New Relic, we’ll uncover how to gain a full view of your microservices, even in the face of Apache Kafka’s asynchronous nature. Join us for a live demo with a simple Java Spring-Boot app, where we’ll walk through both automatic and manual instrumentation to capture rich telemetry. We’ll also touch on infrastructure-level observability, pulling metrics and traces from Apache Kafka brokers and Apache Flink. This event will be held in English language!

Learn how to effectively monitor AI application and infrastructure costs using New Relic AI, leveraging custom LLM dashboards for deep insights. We’ll guide you through using Pulumi Copilot to generate the necessary cloud resources for your AI Chatbot app, transitioning it seamlessly from a local environment to production with a DevOps approach.

Additionally, we will explore how to securely manage credentials for services like OpenAPI, Pinecone, Docker, and more using Pulumi ESC. By mastering these skills, both application and platform teams can deliver secure, high-quality software more efficiently and reproducibly, while minimizing risk and complexity.

This workshop will be recorded, and a link to a video and code will be emailed to those who register.

Speaker:

• Diana Esteves, Solutions Architect, Pulumi
• Harry Kimpel, Principal Developer Relations Engineer, New Relic

Join us to learn:

• How to monitor your AI app and infra costs with New Relic AI LLM Dashboards.
• How to use Pulumi Copilot to generate infrastructure code in Python.
• How to manage any secret securely with Pulumi ESC.

Where: BigMarker at https://pulumip.us/Observability-as-Code-AI-apps Please register using the link above to attend and receive the link to the example code and workshop recording. Join our other workshop here: https://pulumip.us/UpcomingWorkshops

Learn how to effectively monitor AI application and infrastructure costs using New Relic AI, leveraging custom LLM dashboards for deep insights. We’ll guide you through using Pulumi Copilot to generate the necessary cloud resources for your AI Chatbot app, transitioning it seamlessly from a local environment to production with a DevOps approach.

Additionally, we will explore how to securely manage credentials for services like OpenAPI, Pinecone, Docker, and more using Pulumi ESC. By mastering these skills, both application and platform teams can deliver secure, high-quality software more efficiently and reproducibly, while minimizing risk and complexity.

This workshop will be recorded, and a link to a video and code will be emailed to those who register.

Speaker:

• Diana Esteves, Solutions Architect, Pulumi
• Harry Kimpel, Principal Developer Relations Engineer, New Relic

Join us to learn:

• How to monitor your AI app and infra costs with New Relic AI LLM Dashboards.
• How to use Pulumi Copilot to generate infrastructure code in Python.
• How to manage any secret securely with Pulumi ESC.

Where: BigMarker at https://pulumip.us/Observability-as-Code-AI-apps Please register using the link above to attend and receive the link to the example code and workshop recording. Join our other workshop here: https://pulumip.us/UpcomingWorkshops

Learn how to effectively monitor AI application and infrastructure costs using New Relic AI, leveraging custom LLM dashboards for deep insights. We’ll guide you through using Pulumi Copilot to generate the necessary cloud resources for your AI Chatbot app, transitioning it seamlessly from a local environment to production with a DevOps approach.

Additionally, we will explore how to securely manage credentials for services like OpenAPI, Pinecone, Docker, and more using Pulumi ESC. By mastering these skills, both application and platform teams can deliver secure, high-quality software more efficiently and reproducibly, while minimizing risk and complexity.

This workshop will be recorded, and a link to a video and code will be emailed to those who register.

Speaker:

• Diana Esteves, Solutions Architect, Pulumi
• Harry Kimpel, Principal Developer Relations Engineer, New Relic

Join us to learn:

• How to monitor your AI app and infra costs with New Relic AI LLM Dashboards.
• How to use Pulumi Copilot to generate infrastructure code in Python.
• How to manage any secret securely with Pulumi ESC.

Where: BigMarker at https://pulumip.us/Observability-as-Code-AI-apps Please register using the link above to attend and receive the link to the example code and workshop recording. Join our other workshop here: https://pulumip.us/UpcomingWorkshops

Join New Relic engineers and the local user community on Thursday 14th March at 2pm for food, drinks and of course, data talk at Sixes Social Cricket in Manchester. We’ve got a jam-packed agenda and we’ll wrap up the afternoon with some semi-competitive cricket!

Find out what’s new and what’s next with New Relic, we'll cover some of the great highlights from our recent releases, including the latest on New Relic AI, AI monitoring (AIM), logs live archives, continuous automated testing, session replay and mobile user journeys. As well as giving you the inside track on some upcoming limited previews you can get involved in.

We’ll take you through some powerful best practice sessions on:

• Mastering log data, parsing and obfuscation
• Converting events-to-metrics, for faster and more efficient long-term data analysis.
• Managing SLOs and SLIs with our recommendation engine and personalised views.

Then we throw it back to the year 2013 with our version of Flappy Birds. Bring your a-game to compete in an interactive session where we collect your game data and send it into New Relic. Powered by browser, APM, and logs, we will monitor the web-based game and show a live leaderboard of the results from all audience members on screen and there will be prizes aplenty!

AGENDA

2:00pm: Arrival, networking and refreshments 2:30pm: What’s new and what’s next in observability 3:00pm: Best practice sessions: logs, events-to-metrics and service level management 4:00pm: NRQL function of the day 4:15pm: Flappy Birds interactive game 4:30pm: Happy hour, food and cricket!

Register now

Don’t forget to bring your laptop. We look forward to seeing you there!

Harry Kimpel Principal Developer Relations Engineer

Join New Relic engineers and the local user community in Berlin on Thursday 14th March at 2pm CET for food, drinks and of course, data talk at BeachMitte - Mare Lounge. We’ve got a jam-packed agenda, and we’ll wrap up the afternoon with some onsite activities, including ping pong and curling, with food and drinks on us.

Find out what’s new and what’s next with New Relic, we'll cover some of the great highlights from our recent releases, including the latest on New Relic AI, AI monitoring (AIM), logs live archives, continuous automated testing, session replay and mobile user journeys. As well as giving you the inside track on some upcoming limited previews you can get involved in.

We’ll take you through some powerful best practice sessions on:

• Mastering log data, parsing and obfuscation
• Converting events-to-metrics, for faster and more efficient long-term data analysis.
• Managing SLOs and SLIs with our recommendation engine and personalised views.

Then we throw it back to the year 2013 with our version of Flappy Birds. Bring your a-game to compete in an interactive session where we collect your game data and send it into New Relic. Powered by browser, APM, and logs, we will monitor the web-based game and show a live leaderboard of the results from all audience members on screen and there will be prizes aplenty!

AGENDA (Local time CET)

2:00pm: Arrival, networking and refreshments 2:30pm: What’s new and what’s next in observability 3:00pm: Best practice sessions: logs, events-to-metrics and service level management 4:00pm: NRQL function of the day 4:15pm: Flappy Birds interactive game 4:30pm: Food, drinks and onsite activities

Register now

Don’t forget to bring your laptop. We look forward to seeing you there!

Harry Kimpel Principal Developer Relations Engineer

Join New Relic engineers and the local user community on Wednesday 13th March at 2pm for food, drinks and data talk at Token in Dublin. We’ve got a jam-packed agenda and we’ll wrap up the afternoon with some fun on the arcade and pinball machines!

Find out what’s new and what’s next with New Relic, we'll cover some of the great highlights from our recent releases, including the latest on New Relic AI, AI monitoring (AIM), logs live archives, continuous automated testing, session replay and mobile user journeys. As well as giving you the inside track on some upcoming limited previews you can get involved in.

We’ll take you through some powerful best practice sessions on:

• Mastering log data, parsing and obfuscation
• Converting events-to-metrics, for faster and more efficient long-term data analysis.
• Managing SLOs and SLIs with our recommendation engine and personalised views.

Then we throw it back to the year 2013 with our version of Flappy Birds. Bring your a-game to compete in an interactive session where we collect your game data and send it into New Relic. Powered by browser, APM, and logs, we will monitor the web-based game and show a live leaderboard of the results from all audience members on screen and there will be prizes aplenty!

AGENDA

2:00pm: Arrival, networking and refreshments 2:30pm: What’s new and what’s next in observability 3:00pm: Best practice sessions: logs, events-to-metrics and service level management 4:00pm: NRQL function of the day 4:15pm: Flappy Birds interactive game 4:30pm: Happy hour and some fun on the arcade and pinball machines!

Register now

Don’t forget to bring your laptop. We look forward to seeing you there!

Harry Kimpel Principal Developer Relations Engineer

Join New Relic engineers and the local user community on Wednesday 13th March at 2pm for food, drinks and of course, data talk at Bounce in Farringdon! We’ve got a jam-packed agenda and will wrap up the afternoon with some semi-competitive ping-pong.

Find out what’s new and what’s next with New Relic, we'll cover some of the great highlights from our recent releases, including the latest on New Relic AI, AI monitoring (AIM), logs live archives, continuous automated testing, session replay and mobile user journeys. As well as giving you the inside track on some upcoming limited previews you can get involved in.

We’ll take you through some powerful best practice sessions on:

• Mastering log data, parsing and obfuscation
• Converting events-to-metrics, for faster and more efficient long-term data analysis.
• Managing SLOs and SLIs with our recommendation engine and personalised views.

Then we throw it back to the year 2013 with our version of Flappy Birds. Bring your a-game to compete in an interactive session where we collect your game data and send it into New Relic. Powered by browser, APM, and logs, we will monitor the web-based game and show a live leaderboard of the results from all audience members on screen and there will be prizes aplenty!

AGENDA

2:00pm: Arrival, networking and refreshments 2:30pm: What’s new and what’s next in observability 3:00pm: Best practice sessions: logs, events-to-metrics and service level management 4:00pm: NRQL function of the day 4:15pm: Flappy Birds interactive game 4:30pm: Happy hour, food and ping pong!

Register now

Don’t forget to bring your laptop. We look forward to seeing you there!

Harry Kimpel Principal Developer Relations Engineer

Join New Relic engineers and the local user community in Munich on Tuesday 12th March at 2pm CET for food, drinks and data talk at Muzeum Polskiej Wódki in Warsaw. We’ve got a jam-packed agenda and will wrap up the afternoon with some food and networking drinks on us.

Find out what’s new and what’s next with New Relic, we'll cover some of the great highlights from our recent releases, including the latest on New Relic AI, AI monitoring (AIM), logs live archives, continuous automated testing, session replay and mobile user journeys. As well as giving you the inside track on some upcoming limited previews you can get involved in.

We’ll take you through some powerful best practice sessions on:

• Mastering log data, parsing and obfuscation
• Converting events-to-metrics, for faster and more efficient long-term data analysis.
• Managing SLOs and SLIs with our recommendation engine and personalised views.

Then we throw it back to the year 2013 with our version of Flappy Birds. Bring your a-game to compete in an interactive session where we collect your game data and send it into New Relic. Powered by browser, APM, and logs, we will monitor the web-based game and show a live leaderboard of the results from all audience members on screen and there will be prizes aplenty!

AGENDA (Local time CET)

2:00pm: Arrival, networking and refreshments 2:30pm: What’s new and what’s next in observability 3:00pm: Best practice sessions: logs, events-to-metrics and service level management 4:00pm: NRQL function of the day 4:15pm: Flappy Birds interactive game 4:30pm: Food and networking drinks

Register now

Don’t forget to bring your laptop. We look forward to seeing you there!

Harry Kimpel Principal Developer Relations Engineer