Apache Kafka® Meetup

Hosted by OpsTree Global

Date: 26th Sept 2026, Saturday | Hosted by: OpsTree Global, Noida

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About the Workshop

The Noida Kafka Meetup is back on September 26th, 2026. This edition brings together Kafka practitioners and engineers for a hands-on, production-focused afternoon — no slides for the sake of slides, just real-world architecture, hard-won lessons, and technical depth you can take back to your stack.

Hosted at the OpsTree Global Office, Noida, this meetup is designed for platform engineers, data engineers, and architects who work with Kafka in production and want to go beyond the basics.

SESSION 1

Kafka to Lakehouse: Zero-ETL Table Materialization

Speaker: Prabhanshu Chauhan, Customer Success Technical Architect, Confluent

A technical deep dive into bridging Kafka's operational data with the analytical world — covering how Kafka topics can be materialized into open table formats like Apache Iceberg™ and Delta Lake without custom ETL pipelines.

SESSION 2

Kafka at the Edges: Designing an AI Alert-Investigation Pipeline

Speaker: Abhishek Dubey, DevOps Architect, OpsTree Global & Aman Raj, DevOps Engineer, OpsTree Global

A production walkthrough of how the team built an AI-powered alert-investigation pipeline inside REMS — OpsTree's SRE/DevOps platform — that automatically investigates Kubernetes alerts and finds root causes using an AI agent.

SESSION 3

Why Read the Whole Book? A DevOps Case Study in the Age of AI

Speaker: Komal Jaiswal, DevOps Specialist, OpsTree Global

A 15-minute talk using DevOps Driven Development by Abhishek Gaurav as a live test case to explore what you actually lose by skipping the book — backed by real learning research.

Meet our Speakers

Date - 26th Sept 2026
Time - 10:30 AM - 2:00 PM
Venue Address - OpsTree Global, Noida

What You Will Learn

How to materialize Kafka topics directly into Apache Iceberg™ and Delta Lake without custom ETL pipelines

The architectural trade-offs between real-time streaming and micro-batch lakehouse ingestion

Where Kafka fits — and where it deliberately doesn't — in an AI-driven alert-investigation pipeline

How to scale Kafka consumers on lag and design for backpressure at the ingestion layer

The real production architecture behind REMS's AI-powered Kubernetes alert investigation

What NoOps, chaos testing, and FinOps look like when treated as engineering responsibilities, not team boundaries

Where AI genuinely belongs in a DevOps workflow — and where it falls short

A practical framework for deep reading vs. skimming in a world of AI summaries

Highlights from the Session

A glimpse into the energy, discussions, and knowledge shared during our recent event. Grateful to all who joined and made it a success!

Session Resources

Access our Speakers' slide decks, workshop materials, and key takeaways from each session.

Building CI/CD Pipelines for Infrastructure

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Software Supply-Chain Security

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Who Should Attend

This workshop is ideal for:

Data Engineers looking to simplify lakehouse ingestion without building and maintaining custom ETL pipelines
Platform & DevOps Engineers working with Kafka in production who want to extend its value into the analytical layer
Solutions Architects designing modern data platforms that bridge operational and analytical workloads
Backend Engineers building event-driven systems who want visibility into how their data lands in the lakehouse
Technical Leads & Architects evaluating Zero-ETL patterns for their organisation's data stack
Anyone curious about Apache Iceberg™, Delta Lake, or open table formats and how Kafka fits into that ecosystem

Insights & Innovations

Hybrid Cloud vs Multi-Cloud Management: Which Offers Greater Flexibility and Scalability?

The Software Environment Types: Death by a Thousand Deployments

Docker and Kubernetes: Game-Changers in App Deployment

1. What is this session about?

Two practical sessions — one on building and testing CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure, and one on implementing Binary Authorization to ensure only trusted, verified code runs in production.

2. Who should attend?

DevOps engineers, platform engineers, security engineers, and anyone involved in building or managing CI/CD or infrastructure delivery pipelines.

3. Do I need prior experience with CI/CD to attend?

A basic understanding of CI/CD concepts will help, but both sessions are structured to be accessible whether you are starting out or looking to mature an existing setup.

4. Is there a cost to attend?

No. This is a free, in-person session hosted at OpsTree's office in Noida.

5. Is registration required?

Yes — seats are limited. Please register using the form on this page to confirm your spot.

Apache Kafka® Meetup

About the Workshop

Meet our Speakers

Prabhanshu Chauhan
Customer Success Technical Architect

Abhishek Dubey
DevOps Architect at OpsTree

Aman Raj
DevOps Engineer at OpsTree