Event-driven architectures with Kafka enabled a financial institution to decouple monolithic systems into asynchronous microservices, dramatically improving deployment frequency and time-to-market. A hybrid modernization approach bridged legacy mainframes by having COBOL systems emit events to distributed services.
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Watch the video:TranscriptFoundations of event-driven systems [ 01:10 ]Trade-offs and benefits of event-driven financial systems [ 03:40 ]Reliability in practice [ 08:10 ]Financial industry context [ 09:31 ]Event streaming as a legacy migration pattern [ 12:42 ]Stakeholder buy-in for a new architecture [ 17:59 ]Motivation for architecture modernization [ 19:45 ]The paradigm shift from building standalone solutions to having a platform [ 25:16 ]AI trends in financial services [ 28:01 ]Anomaly detection can be for engineering as well as finance [ 31:21 ]Looking ahead for financial systems [ 32:23 ]Wrap-up [ 34:35 ]About the AuthorSort: