Enterprise Event Streaming Platform Built by the Original Creators of Apache Kafka®

Unlocking the Power of Real-Time

Data: Command vs Event Driven
Architectures
 About me.

Johnny Mirza - Staff Solutions Engineer - Confluent

Agenda
○ Overview - Event Driven Architecture
○ Whiteboard a Real-Time Event Streaming Scenario
○ Demo
 Challenging old assumptions

Big Data Fast Data

The More the Better The Faster the Better

/
Value of Data

Value of Data
Age of Data Age of Data
We built systems optimised
for efficient storage…

Databases

Simple, static Slow, daily

queries batch processing

Data at rest
Zoom into the world of data integration…

Operational
Data Sources
Systems

Infrastructure
4

Browser mobile
Extract/Load Transform Reverse ETL
Logs

Telemetry

SaaS apps

… 4 SaaS
Applications
3
2
Systems of Record BI Tools

Core processing
systems Data Warehouses
1
External data

Unstructured data
Snowflake BigQuery Redshift Synapse
Real-Time Stream Processing

A Sale

Rich Front-End Customer

A shipment Experiences

Real-time &
Historical
Data

A Customer Real-Time Backend

Experience Operations

A Trade

The log!

Time

Pub/Sub - Storage - Processing

Capabilities of a data
streaming platform.

Process

Connect Data Topic

Store
Share

Govern
…shift the integration to the
Streaming Applications

Producers are Consumers are

Central
responsible for responsible for
Platform team
producing data consuming data
 Moving to a scalable and truly decoupled
architecture.

“Integration”

Source Target

Source Target

Source Target

Source Target
Whiteboard Architecture
Demo
Learnings:

1. Data sources are growing. Data volumes

are growing. Current approach to
integration is not sustainable.

2. Kappa Architecture is the future of

Integration. (Event Driven Architecture)

3. Fast Data beats Slow Data.

Let’s
connect.

linkedin.com/in/johnnym

https://github.com/JohnnyMirza
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