Surge [1] is scalability focused conference in late September hosted in Baltimore. It's a pretty cool conference with a good mix of operationally minded people interested in scalability, distributed systems, systems level performance and good stuff like that. You should go! [2]
In particular this year Erik Onnen [3] from Urban Airship will be giving a cool looking talk called "Data Models and Consumer Idioms Using Apache Kafka for Continuous Data Stream Processing". This year there is also organised room for BoF's and such with several one-hour slots Wednesday and Thursday evenings, between 9 p.m. and midnight for BoFs. Are there other Apache Kafka users going and interested in getting together? [1] http://omniti.com/surge/2012 [2] http://omniti.com/surge/2012/register [3] http://omniti.com/surge/2012/speakers/onnen_erik
