Hands-on Workshop: Migrating from Apache Kafka®

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Hands-on Workshop:

Migrate from Apache Kafka^® to Confluent Cloud

Virtual Event

October 9, 2025

AMER: 10am PDT | EMEA: 10am BST

October 16, 2025

APAC: 1pm SGT

This workshop offers a hands-on, practical guide to migrating your real-time data pipelines from Apache Kafka to Confluent Cloud. We'll show you how to overcome common migration challenges, best practices for rethinking and optimizing your workloads, and simplify your architecture.

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What You'll Learn

In this workshop you'll discover how to:

✅ Produce real-world workloads with sample order events
✅ Establish a Cluster Link to pull topics and messages into Confluent Cloud
✅ Validate successful data replication and ensure data integrity
✅ Reconfigure producers and consumers to point to Confluent Cloud for a smooth transition with preserved offsets
✅ Understand key considerations for migrating production workloads, including promoting mirror topics

By the end, you'll have a clear understanding of the complete migration process, equipped to plan your own transition to a more scalable, reliable, and cost-effective Kafka environment.

Who Should Attend?

In this workshop you'll discover how to:

✅ Produce real-world workloads with sample order events
✅ Establish a Cluster Link to pull topics and messages into Confluent Cloud
✅ Validate successful data replication and ensure data integrity
✅ Reconfigure producers and consumers to point to Confluent Cloud for a smooth transition with preserved offsets
✅ Understand key considerations for migrating production workloads, including promoting mirror topics

By the end, you'll have a clear understanding of the complete migration process, equipped to plan your own transition to a more scalable, reliable, and cost-effective Kafka environment.

Workshop Prerequisites

1️⃣ To get the most out of this hands-on workshop, we recommend having the following installed and configured:

• Confluent Cloud Account: Sign up for free here. Free credits will cover workshop costs.
• Terraform: v1.5.7 or later
• AWS: AWS CLI and active AWS account with EC2 and networking permissions
• Kafka CLI (Optional)

2️⃣ Please view this document to install prerequisites on Mac or Windows.

We'll provide detailed set-up steps, but having these ready will enhance your experience!

Who Should Attend

This webinar is ideal for developers and architects responsible for:

• Running mission-critical Apache Kafka workloads
• Seeking to reduce operational overhead and achieve greater scalability and reliability

• Evaluating or planning a migration from self-managed or hosted Kafka services to Confluent Cloud

Ready to simplify your Kafka operations and achieve true cloud scalability? Register now!

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Workshop Agenda

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

• Introduction

• Presentation – Overview of stream processing and Flink

• Hands-on session, part 1 – Intro to Flink SQL (details in GitHub)

10:30 AM - 10:45 AM

• Break

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM

• Hands-on session, part 2 – Use case implementation with Flink SQL (details in GitHub)

• Presentation – Recap and roadmap discussion

• Q&A

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Workshop Agenda

90 mins

• INTRODUCTION
• PRESENTATION: Overview of Stream Processing & Flink

• HANDS-ON SESSION #1: Intro to Flink SQL (GitHub details)

15 mins

• BREAK

90 mins

• HANDS-ON SESSION #2: Use Case Implementation with Flink SQL (GitHub details)

• PRESENTATION: Recap and Roadmap Discussion

• Q&A

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To make sure you’re all set for the workshop, we recommend that you access Confluent Cloud before the workshop starts.

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Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink Launch Blog

Read this article to learn about the latest enhancements to our serverless Flink service, now generally available on all three major cloud providers.

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