IN PERSON! Apache Kafka® Meetup Bangalore- Nov 2026

Hello everyone! Join us for an IN PERSON Apache Kafka® meetup on Nov 21st from 11:00AM, hosted by Giniminds in Bangalore! IMPORTANT! Please fill out the below form for expense purposes. 📍 Venue: Giniminds Solutions Private Limited 738, Sumo Sapphire, 3rd Floor, 15th Cross Road, J P Nagar 6th Phase, Bangalore - 560078 \\\ Agenda: 11:00 - 11:10: Welcome 11:10 - 11:50: Giri Venkatesan, Principal Developer Advocate, Solace 11:50 - 12:30: Sanchitha B, Solutions Engineer - Data Streaming Platform, Giniminds 12:30 - 12:40: Break 12:40 - 13:20: Kumar Keshav, Manager II, Engineering, Confluent 13:20 - 14:30: Lunch \\\ 💡 Speaker: Giri Venkatesan, Principal Developer Advocate, Solace Talk: How to build a Kafka-compatible engine with no broker disks Abstract: Most of Kafka’s operational weight comes from broker-local disks. Replication, rebalancing, capacity planning and cross-AZ traffic all follow from storing data on the brokers. Upstream Kafka is working on this through KIP-1150, and the implementation work is still in progress. This talk looks at a different route. Nisshi is an open-source (Apache 2.0) engine written in Rust that implements the Kafka wire protocol independently. It is not a fork of Apache Kafka. The broker is a stateless process, and durability is handled by a pluggable storage engine such as PostgreSQL, SQLite or S3-compatible storage. We will cover how the protocol layer separates from storage, what that separation costs in latency, and where it fits and where it doesn’t. A live demo connects standard Kafka clients without code changes. Then we stop the broker, restart it, and check what survived. We will also say which clients have been tested and what the project does not yet do, including that authentication is off by default. You will leave with a clear picture of the diskless design space and a way to judge whether it suits your workloads. \-\-\-\-\- 💡 Speaker: Kumar Keshav, Manager II, Engineering, Confluent Talk: Powering Real Tim