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Endah Bongo-Awah

Endah Bongo-Awah

DevOps Engineer at RTL Germany

Neuwied, Germany

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Endah is a DevOps Engineer at RTL-Tech Deutschland, helping to shape the future of Germany's leading entertainment Industry .

She is passionate about community building and empowering women and enthusiasts in the IT field. She is serving for the second year in a role as an AWS community builder and well a board member for the Cloud Heroes Africa community. As of August 2024, she was selected as a google Women Techmakers Ambassador.

She is a vocal advocate for diversity in the tech industry, especially underrepresented groups. She regularly mentors aspiring IT Professionals from Africa. Let us all meet in the cloud

Area of Expertise

  • Business & Management
  • Information & Communications Technology

Topics

  • Kubernetes
  • AWS DevOps
  • aws
  • Helm
  • Git
  • Istio
  • Self Improvement
  • Digital Transformation
  • Career Transition
  • Mentoring and Career Development
  • hashicorp terraform
  • Leading with Confidence in times of Uncertainity
  • Self confidence
  • "Fail Forward Faster Fearlessly"
  • working mom
  • Journey to Cloud
  • Google Cloud
  • Google Developer Experts
  • Google Workspace

The Grandmaster Ninja (EKS): Orchestration Enterprise Scale Microservices on AWS

Imagine a large enterprise with complex architectures not having fine-grain-control of their services.

Imagine you not having a buffer-free access to your favorite app.

Imagine you have an emergency and can't book a an uber ride as fast as you can.

There are many more scenarios to imagine!
In this session, we shall explore the power of EKS:
- As it Orchestrates complex architectures, providing it with resilience, scalability, flexible control and security.
- As it provides reliable and responsive services, real-time data preprocessing and continue update and security!

Kafka Done Right: Patterns That Scale, Simplify, and Save Your Sanity.

“Kafka is powerful—but it’s also a trap for the unprepared.”
From the outside, Kafka looks like just another message queue. But under the hood? It's a minefield of subtle misconfigurations, scaling headaches, and mysterious consumer lag. Ask our Kafka Helpdesk—we've seen it all.
Typical cries for help:

--> “We need to clean up unused Kafka topics after a merge request... how do we find them safely?”

--> “Authentication works, but our consumer group still can't read from the topic.”

--> “A single malformed message in PROD is crashing our jobs!”

In this session, We’ll take you on a journey through the most common Kafka anti-patterns—things that look fine until your cluster goes sideways. I’ll also show you the patterns, tools, and AWS-native solutions that have helped us tame large-scale Kafka deployments.
You’ll leave with:
--> Real-world Kafka horror stories—and how to avoid them

--> Production-proven design patterns (think schema registries, tiered storage, ACL strategies, observability)

--> Tips to cut operational cost and reduce cognitive overhead

--> A blueprint for keeping your Kafka stack lean, secure, and future-proof

Whether you’re a developer, DevOps engineer, or architect, this talk will help you avoid the traps—and sleep better at night knowing your Kafka setup won’t wake you at 3AM.

Why? Because our Kafka Helpdesk is TIRED!!

Length: 30 or 45 minutes, incl. Q&A

Level:
Intermediate

Tags:
Kafka, Apache Kafka, Amazon MSK, Event-Driven Architecture, DevOps, Observability, Cost Optimization, Cloud-Native, Streaming, Architecture

Endah Bongo-Awah

DevOps Engineer at RTL Germany

Neuwied, Germany

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