4 days / 20 talks
Awesome and great speakers
José Lacerda
In 1992, José received a Master’s degree in Management and Information Systems from the Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo. He began his career developing ERP and POS software for MS-DOS using FoxPro & Codebase. By 1996, his tools of choice were Turbo Vision & Borland C++. He used them to migrate legacy software to Windows 95 and integrate SQL databases. This was soon followed by a project specific to Workplace Health and Safety that is still used in several Portuguese hospitals.
José joined Macwin in 2003 and was introduced to Studio 3.2.1. The company specialized in ERP solutions for the textile industry which was deployed in over 50 textile companies in northern Portugal. José extended Studio with custom xComps and builr several core modules, including Accounting, Assets, POS, and Human Resources.
Prozis, an online store, implemented its ERP system in 2008. The project was very successful, leading Prozis and Macwin to form a new enterprise group in 2010. In 2017, the company divested their textile software division and rebranded as Prozis.Tech. Since then, Prozis.Tech has focused on developing in-house solutions for nearly all company processes including: Accounting, Human Resources, Asset Management, Warehouse Management, Purchasing, Marketing, and various web services.
José lives with his wife and two children in Viana do Castelo, a charming and picturesque city in the northwest of Portugal, known for its rich history, good food and vibrant cultural heritage. A passionate reader and avid book collector for over 30 years, José has also developed a deep interest in numismatics in recent years, a hobby he shares with his eldest son.
Omnis and Kafka
Managing information flow between distributed system components is a significant challenge. In environments where multiple services and applications must communicate reliably and efficiently, ensuring that data reaches its intended destination on time and with delivery guarantees is critical.
In this context, Apache Kafka stands out as a robust and scalable solution. Kafka is a distributed streaming platform that enables publishing, subscribing, storing, and processing of real-time data streams. Its architecture (based on distributed logs) provides high fault tolerance, consistent performance, and the ability to handle large volumes of data. This makes Kafka ideal for applications that require asynchronous communication, real-time processing and seamless integration across multiple systems.
Organizations that adopt Apache Kafka enhance the reliability of their data exchange and build more flexible and resilient data pipelines—an essential capability in modern, event-driven architectures.
This session will cover the following topics:
- Multi-System Architecture (Benefits, drawbacks and communication methods)
- What is Apache Kafka (users, use cases and no use cases)
- Main concepts (Topics, partitions, brokers, messages, producers, consumers, etc.)
- Comparing Apache Kafka with other message brokers;
- Drawbacks of Apache Kafka;
- Installation and UI tools;
- Sending messages to Kafka;
- Using a Java and Python Object Worker to send messages from Omnis Studio;
- Receiving messages from Kafka;
- Receiving message in Omnis using Java and Python Object Workers;
- Schema registry;
- Reliable data delivery;
- Presenting a real use case from inside Prozis.