SPEAKER

Anna McDonald

Anna McDonald is a Staff Customer Success Technical Architect with Confluent. Prior to joining Confluent she was a Principal Software Developer with SAS Institute. She specializes in integration architecture and event streaming. Her most recent work includes creation of the Derivative Events design pattern. A speaker at Kafka Summit and Jfokus her love of all things technical is matched only by her love of math puns.

VIDEOS

VIDEO

Virtual Confluent Girl Geek Dinner – Lightning Talks and Fireside Chat!

Confluent partnered with Girl Geek X for a virtual Girl Geek Dinner with lightning talks on event streaming, navigating career growth, overcoming imposter syndrome, coming out at work, being Blackfluent, working while pregnant - followed by a fireside chat with Confluent co-founder Neha Narkhede - and networking!
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VIDEO

Welcome to Confluent: Event Streaming in 7 Minutes or Less by Anna McDonald

With 20 years of experience, Anna will talk about how popular and necessary event streaming has become. She will also go over the different types of event patterns and how to implement each in Apache Kafka.
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