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Digital Transformation in Style: How Boden Innovates Retail Using Apache Kafka
As a clothing retailer with more than 1.5 million customers worldwide, Boden is always looking to capitalise on business moments to drive sales. For example, when the Duchess of Cambridge […]
Lessons Learned from Evolving a Risk Management Platform to Event Streaming
Every organization that exposes its services online is subject to the interest of malicious actors. The ongoing struggle with botnets, crawlers, script kiddies, and bounty hunters is challenging and requires […]
Enabling the Deployment of Event-Driven Architectures Everywhere Using Microsoft Azure and Confluent Cloud
Hybrid cloud architecture and accelerated cloud migrations are becoming the norm rather than the exception, as our increasingly digital world introduces certain challenges along the way, including modernizing existing application/architecture, […]
Walmart’s Real-Time Inventory System Powered by Apache Kafka
Consumer shopping patterns have changed drastically in the last few years. Shopping in a physical store is no longer the only way. Retail shopping experiences have evolved to include multiple […]
Preventing Fraud and Fighting Account Takeovers with Kafka Streams
Many companies have recently started to take cybersecurity and data protection even more seriously, particularly driven by the recent General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) legislation. They are increasing their investment […]
Running Kafka Streams Applications in AWS
This guest blog post is the second in a series about the use of Apache Kafka’s Streams API by Zalando, Europe’s largest online fashion retailer. See Ranking Websites in Real-time […]
Ranking Websites in Real-time with Apache Kafka’s Streams API
This article is by Hunter Kelly, Technical Architect at Zalando. Hunter enjoys using technology, and in particular machine learning, to solve difficult problems. He’s a graduate of the University of […]
Apache Kafka for Real-Time Retail at Walmart Labs
This post is by Anil Kumar, Global eCommerce Engineer at Walmart Labs. Anil specializes in enabling stream processing, cloud computing, ad technology, search services, information retrieval, transport and application layer protocols, […]
Event sourcing, CQRS, stream processing and Apache Kafka: What’s the connection?
Event sourcing as an application architecture pattern is rising in popularity. Event sourcing involves modeling the state changes made by applications as an immutable sequence or “log” of events. Instead […]