As a Solutions Architect at Solace, I work with several Capital Markets customers. These customers range from large investment banks to leading hedge funds. Historically, these firms have been always at the forefront of cutting-edge technology with special focus on performance and resiliency. For several decades, they have invested in large scale infrastructure for heavy […]
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 […]
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 […]
In my current role as a Solutions Architect, I am regularly talking to developers and architects about IaaS, PaaS and SaaS. These terms, which are relatively new, can sometimes be confusing. In this post, I would like to give a brief description of what they are and how they differ from each other. As shown […]
In one of my previous posts, I discussed the evolution of application architecture from monolithic to service-oriented to microservices and eventually, to event-driven. I concluded that post with a brief introduction to event-driven architecture (EDA) and promised to dive deeper into the topic in a future post. Well, here we are. In this post, I […]
When you are architecting a system, it is extremely important to make sure the system is redundant, highly resilient and fault-tolerant. Such a system is capable of continuing operating if one of the nodes fails as well as if all the nodes fail in one datacenter. Solace’s PubSub+ broker can be deployed in a High-Availablity […]