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The Changing Face of ETL: Event-Driven Architectures for Data Engineers

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Data integration in architectures built on static, update-in-place datastores inevitably end up with pathologically high degrees of coupling and poor scalability. This has been the standard practice for decades, as we attempt to build data pipelines on top of databases that do a poor job modeling the fundamental objects that drive our businesses and systems: events.

Events carry both notification and state, and form a powerful primitive on which to build systems for developers and data engineers alike. Developers benefit from the asynchronous communication that events enable between services, and data engineers benefit from the integration capabilities. Everyone gains from using the standards-based, scalable and resilient streaming platform.

In this talk, we’ll discuss the concepts of events, their relevance to both software engineers and data engineers and their ability to unify architectures in a powerful way. We’ll see how stream processing makes sense in both a microservices and ETL environment, and why analytics, data integration and ETL fit naturally into a streaming world.

Robin works on the DevRel team at Confluent. His data engineering journey has taken him from building data warehouses on mainframes with COBOL to developing Oracle analytics solutions, before diving headfirst into the Kafka ecosystem and the modern data streaming world in recent years. Outside of work, Robin enjoys running, drinking good beer, and eating fried breakfasts—although generally not at the same time.