Solace Office Hours | Jan 2022 | PubSub+ Event Portal demo, Solace + Kafka, dynamic topics & more

Solace Developer Advocate Aaron Lee and Solace Architect extraordinaire Steve Chan get together for the year's first live, interactive office hour. Check out the demo of Solace's PubSub+ Event Portal and learn how you can it to discover and visualize a Kafka event broker setup! Video markers below! 👇 00:00 - Introduction 3:00 - Solace Event Portal overview 6:40 - What to expect from the Solace Developer Community Forum 9:50 - What is Data Streaming? 14:20 - Using data stores with streaming technologies like Kafka 16:00 - Solace and Kafka 16:45 - Resources on the broker: Queues 19:18 - using Solace and Kafka together 24:30 - Solace PubSub+ Event Portal demo 28:40 - Solace discovery agent + performance impact 33:00 - How to sign up to use Solace Cloud 35: 00 - PubSub+ Event Portal Catalog 39:00 - Documentation, discovery, and cataloging in the event portal 44:00 - Kafka vs Solace topics 45:00 - Dynamic topic in Solace 48:00 - Using descriptive Solace Topic name 51:00 - Visual representation of the discovery scan 56:00 - How does the Event Portal handle different topic types? 57:20 - The file created from the discovery agent 59:00 - What is the overhead of using long topic names? 1:00:36 - Benefits of long, detailed, and descriptive topic 1:02:40 - Cool applications of geofiltering using topic wildcards 1:04:30 - Wrap up