Using Aiven for Apache Kafka® to measure user interactions

We’re conducting a "very scientific" long term, worldwide longitudinal study on how often people press a button on a Python web app 🤔.

Gain practical experience with this powerful distributed streaming platform.

This workshop shows how to use Apache Kafka® to get data out of your application. Discover how multiple consumers can produce results from the same data, and how to scale data resources in a manageable way.

Date: Wednesday March 26, 2025

  • 10am PDT | 1pm EDT | 6pm CET
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Workshop hosts

Tibs

Developer Educator, Aiven

Tibs has spent most of their career as a software developer, working in digital mapping, embedded Linux, and backend cloud services. At the start of 2022, they moved to Aiven and Developer Relations. They've been working with data transfer technologies since the days of magnetic tape, contributed to data transfer standards in the 1990s, and now get paid to play with technologies like Apache Kafka®. They have attended PyCon UK since its inception, and served as a long time organiser for the Cambridge Python User Group. Pronouns are they/them or he/him.

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Jay Miller

Staff Developer Advocate, Aiven

Jay Miller is a Staff Developer Advocate and long term advocate for building developer communities. Jay has been a contributor to the Python Community ecosystem and has participated in many user groups and conferences.

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What will we cover?

  • Apache Kafka Fundamentals: We'll explain the core concepts of Kafka, including topics, producers, consumers, partitions, and consumer groups. We'll demonstrate how these work together to enable real-time data streaming, and allow Kafka to act as the data backbone for multiple services.
  • Taking advantage of Aiven for Apache Kafka: We'll explain how to integrate Kafka with other services (Aiven for PostgreSQL® and Aiven for ClickHouse®), taking advantage of Aiven for Apache Kafka with its seamless integrations, tiered storage, and operational simplicity.

Who is this session good for?

  • People who want to understand how Apache Kafka can act as a data streaming backbone
  • People who want to learn more about integrating Kafka with other tools and services, using Aiven managed services
  • Anyone who wants to press a button for "science"

What do you need?

  • A web browser if you want to open the demo app and interact with it. Your mobile phone should do 🙂

The workshop has a GitHub repository at https://github.com/Aiven-Labs/kafka-button-app, which you can use after the event to redo everything yourself.

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