Running Micro-Services on Apache Kafka

Agenda:
18:00 - 18:30: Networking, mingling Pizza & Beer

18:30 - 19:30: Apache Kafka as a Pub / Sub Mechanism in a Microservice Architected Software Platform. Kobi Hikri. YouTube Live-Stream Event: https://goo.gl/Y3s8QV

19:30 - 20:30: Uses of Stream Processing, Microservices and, DDD in FinTech. Anna Keren and Yoav Sharon, Funding Circle. YouTube Live-Stream Event: https://goo.gl/CoiHQF

First talk description:
In this lecture we will review aspects of Apache Kafka which makes it a serious candidate for
utilization as a Publisher / Subscriber messaging system - in particular for our microservice
architecture software platform. We will discuss the built-in support for load-balancing, as well as scaling and fault-tolerance.

Kobi Hikri is a self-proclaimed software simplifier. Kobi mostly deals with distributed systems and is an avid software geek. On top of consulting software enterprises, Kobi writes content for Pluralsight and hack.guides(). In his spare time, you will find him on his mountain bike or with his camera.

Second talk description:
In this talk we’ll describe the transition we’ve done at Funding Circle towards relying on
Kafka as the source of truth and system of record for our entire marketplace activities.

Funding Circle is the global leader financial technology marketplace, that connects investors
and borrowers, where the borrowers are small businesses. Over the past 2.5 years we’ve been migrating our entire stack to use event stream processing on Kafka Streams to solve scaling challenges. We’re using DDD when building our new stack, and we’d be happy to share the main lessons we’ve learned, the tools we’ve been using & building, and the challenges we’re still facing. We’ll address the above from product and engineering perspectives.

Anna is engineering manager with over 6 years experience in
financial services industries, with software engineering background.

Yoav is the head of investor product at Funding Circle, leading the
migration to the new architecture from the product point of view.