Best practices for Ruby + Kafka & what makes up a true agile organisation

We are extremely excited to invite you to this Tech MeetUp we are organising together with our partner Xempus – one of the most successful InsureTech companies in Europe!

Our speakers – Markus Fuchs, Engineering Manager and Austin Moore, Senior Software Developer, come directly from Munich and have prepared some gripping presentations. The topics we will discuss:

“Best Practices for Ruby + Kafka
Working on a monolithic #Rails app that’s still maintainable? That’s great to hear! You’re one of the lucky few. For the rest of us, we’re facing one or more of the following challenges:
• Breaking up an unwieldy monolith
• Managing the chaos of micro-services
• Getting different applications to talk to each other
At Xempus, they encountered all three problems and tackled them successfully with the help of a nifty tool named #Kafka.
In this talk, Austin will quickly go over what Kafka is and how it can help solve these tricky problems. Then he’ll dive into some of the concrete best practices they’ve come up with in the years working with this complex and powerful tool.
Some of the best practices are specific to Ruby, but many can be applied to using Kafka with your language of choice. Xempus itself has applications written not only in Ruby, but also in Java, Kotlin and C#.
In short, if you’re experiencing similar challenges in your applications, this talk will hopefully provide you with some concrete advice.

“What makes up a true agile organisation?”
During the second presentation, Markus will make a more high-level overview of Xempus, sharing and demonstrating why is it cool to work at such a great company. He will show how a company can effectively use the potential of its employees by explaining Xempus’ strategy, their new operating model, the principles behind it and their cascading goal system, which aligns the whole company.
⚠️The registration is free but required. Make sure to register here.