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A collection of 6 posts

Data in motion, myth or reality

Data in motion, myth or reality

When I started to work in IT a couple decades ago, the center of the universe for a software engineer was databases, mostly relational ones. We were relying heavily on their transactional capabilities to ensure data consistency. Integrating an app with the rest of the world was quite a challenge.

Designing Kafka Streams Applications

Designing Kafka Streams Applications

For the past 4 years, our journey into the heart of Kafka's capabilities has been shaped by two pivotal concepts: Master Topologies and Micro Topologies. These conceptual frameworks have become the backbone of our Kafka Streams application design, offering a comprehensive and granular understanding of our end-to-end communication.

Moving from orchestration to choreography - Part 2

Moving from orchestration to choreography - Part 2

In the first article [https://blogit.michelin.io/choregraphy-or-orchestration-thats-the-question/] of this serie, we've been through the preliminary work to convince our organization to move from a central orchestrator (implemented with a Business Process Management tool) to a choreography of micro-services. This second article will focus on a critical

“The metamorphose” of our Information System by Implementing a distributed event streaming platform

“The metamorphose” of our Information System by Implementing a distributed event streaming platform

In this article, I want to share Michelin's experience on its first implementations of Kafka and distributed architectures, which is part of the early stages of implementing our EDA architectures. Our firsts experiences we had on a distributed platform.