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Kafka

A collection of 6 posts

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.

The Michelin Guide: an unexpected event driven use case

The Michelin Guide: an unexpected event driven use case

tl;dr content publication is a challenge for an institution like the Michelin guide. Event streaming between SaaS solutions using Kafka hosted in Confluent cloud was a solution for us to move from a 2 days delay publication to near real time. Although it was not easy especially from an

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.