SOA vs. EDA: Is Not Life Simply a Series of Events?
When should you use an API? When should you use an event? Most contemporary software architectures are some mix of these two approaches. I will attempt to articulate in layman’s […]
Journey to Event Driven – Part 2: Programming Models for the Event-Driven Architecture
Part 1 of this series discussed why you need to embrace event-first thinking, while this article builds a rationale for different styles of event-driven architectures and compares and contrasts scaling, […]
A Beginner’s Perspective on Kafka Streams: Building Real-Time Walkthrough Detection
Here at Zenreach, we create products to enable brick-and-mortar merchants to better understand, engage and serve their customers. Many of these products rely on our capability to quickly and reliably […]
Journey to Event Driven – Part 1: Why Event-First Thinking Changes Everything
The world is changing. New problems need to be solved. Companies now run global businesses that span the globe and hop between clouds, breaking down silos to create seamless applications […]
Using Apache Kafka to Drive Cutting-Edge Machine Learning
Machine learning and the Apache Kafka® ecosystem are a great combination for training and deploying analytic models at scale. I had previously discussed potential use cases and architectures for machine […]
Event Driven 2.0
In the future, data will be as automated and self-service as infrastructure is today. You’ll open a console that lists the data available in your company; define the pieces you […]
The Changing Face of ETL
The way in which we handle data and build applications is changing. Technology and development practices have evolved to a point where building systems in isolated silos is somewhat impractical, […]
Putting the Power of Apache Kafka into the Hands of Data Scientists
At Stitch Fix, we blend the art of expert personal styling with the science of algorithms to deliver highly personalized services that cater to the tastes, lifestyles and budgets of […]
Apache Kafka vs. Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) – Friends, Enemies or Frenemies?
Typically, an enterprise service bus (ESB) or other integration solutions like extract-transform-load (ETL) tools have been used to try to decouple systems. However, the sheer number of connectors, as well […]
Deploying Apache Kafka on AWS Elastic Block Store (EBS)
Apache Kafka is designed to be highly performant, reliable, scalable, and fault tolerant. At the same time, the performance and reliability of a Kafka cluster is highly dependent on the […]