There’s lots going on in the next few months :-) I’m particularly excited to be speaking at several notable conferences for the first time, including JavaZone, USENIX LISA, and Devoxx. As always, if you’re nearby then hope to see you there, and let me know if you want to meet for a coffee or beer! September 🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain 6th Sept: Madrid Kafka Meetup 🇳🇴 Oslo, Norway 10th Sept: Oslo Kafka Meetup 11th Sept: JavaZone 🇧🇪 Antwerp/Brussels, Belgium 25th Sept: Brussels Kafka Meetup 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Spain 26th Sept: Barcelona Kafka Meetup October 🇬🇧 Leeds, UK 4th Oct: The JVM Thing meetup 🇺🇸 Nashville (TN), USA 31st Oct: LISA18 November 🇩🇪 Münich, Germany 7th Nov: W-JAX 🇧🇪 Antwerp, Belgium 13th Nov: Devoxx Belgium 🇵🇱 Krakow, Poland 26th Nov: CoreDump December 🇬🇧 Liverpool, UK 4th Dec: UKOUG TECH 18 🇩🇪 Frankfurt, Germany 10th Dec: Apache Kafka Meetup 11th Dec: IT Days

I’m excited to be speaking at several conferences and meetups over the next few months. Unsurprisingly, the topic will be Apache Kafka! If you’re at any of these, please do come and say hi :) Apache Kafka Meetup - London My first time talking at the London Apache Kafka Meetup - always a sold-out crowd, this will be fun! September 20th, 19:00 : Look Ma, no Code! Building Streaming Data Pipelines with Apache Kafka Slides are available here Oracle OpenWorld - San Francisco This will be my second time at OOW - I wrote up my previous trip here

Here’s a collection of useful articles that I’ve found over the years that give good advice on writing a good abstract, mistakes to avoid, etc: Adam Machanic - Capturing Attention: Writing Great Session Descriptions Gwen Shapira - Concrete Advice for Abstract Writers Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman - Abstracts, Reviews and Conferences, Oh My! Russ Unger - Conference Proposals that Don’t Suck Martin Widlake - Tips on Submitting an Abstract to Conference Bridget Kromhout - give actionable takeaways (post photo courtesy of Calum MacAulay on https://unsplash.