In the last few years, event-driven architecture has gained tremendously in popularity. COVID-19 being a major factor for that rise which forced companies from many industries, especially retail, to adopt digital transformation. As companies rushed to establish their presence online, some had the appropriate tools and skills to manage the migration while others did whatever […]
Change Data Capture (CDC) is quite the buzz these days. I have been in numerous client meetings where CDC has come up lately, way more than before. So what is CDC and why might you be interested in it? CDC is closely linked to Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) and with recent rise in popularity of EDA, […]
Disclaimer: What I am about to show you in this post is a simplified version of the overall event architecture at an asset management firm. As you may know already, an asset management firm is responsible for managing their clients’ capital. These clients are generally high net-worth individuals, pension funds, corporations, and/or sovereign funds. These […]
My last post talked about the importance of event-driven architecture and it endorsed having a hybrid architecture consisting of both RESTful and streaming APIs. In this post, I would like to walk you through a simple demo that shows benefit of using a broker, such as Solace PubSub+, that can handle multiple open protocols and […]
I love REST-based applications, especially when I am developing a new app and I need to get some data from another application. Getting a response from their team that their application has a REST API which is well documented and accessible via Swagger API is the best thing ever…besides having some sunny days after a […]
If you want to work with real-time streaming data, the two most popular feeds you will come across are Wikipedia updates and Twitter tweets. While capturing Wikipedia updates used to be quite trendy a few years ago, recently, capturing tweets from Twitter and running sentiment analysis on this has become trendier. In this post, I […]
You can now subscribe to get notified of my latest posts! This post is the third post in a series of posts I have written as part of a data analytics pipeline spanning multiple languages, databases, and environments. You can find more about the pipeline in my final post here. I am currently working on a different […]
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Integrating pub/sub with MuleSoft
One of the benefits of my current job is that I get to work with companies from different industries. As someone who had only worked in financial services before, it has been a very rewarding experience to understand the kinds of challenges companies face in other industries and how they compare to challenges commonly found […]
Serverless architecture is all the rage these days and nothing screams serverless like AWS Lambda. When Lambda was announced a few years ago by AWS, it caused quite a bit of confusion but slowly it has gained popularity and has become analogous to serverless architecture. AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that runs your code […]
In the last few years, it has been more important than ever to make sure your systems are sufficiently secured, especially your data. Several high profile system/data breaches have convinced corporations in different industries to treat their data with caution because those who failed to do so ended up paying a hefty price, both in […]