Business Process Automation and BPM Workflow Engine and Orchestration with Apache Kafka
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Apache Kafka as Workflow and Orchestration Engine

Business process automation with a workflow engine or BPM suite has existed for decades. However, using the data streaming platform Apache Kafka as the backbone of a workflow engine provides better scalability, higher availability, and simplified architecture. This blog post explores case studies across industries to show how enterprises like Salesforce or Swisscom implement stateful workflow automation and orchestration with Kafka.
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The State of Data Streaming for Manufacturing in 2023
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The State of Data Streaming for Manufacturing in 2023

This blog post explores the state of data streaming for manufacturing in 2023. The evolution of industrial IoT, manufacturing 4.0, and digitalized B2B and customer relations require modern, open, and scalable information sharing. The foci are trending enterprise architectures in the manufacturing industry and data streaming customer stories from BMW, Mercedes, Michelin, or Siemens. A complete slide deck and on-demand video recording are included.
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Supply Chain Optimization with Apache Kafka and SCM
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Apache Kafka for Supply Chain Management (SCM) Optimization

Supply Chain optimization leveraging Event Streaming with Apache Kafka. See real-world use cases and architectures from Walmart, BMW, Porsche, and other enterprises to improve the Supply Chain Management (SCM) processes. Automation, robustness, flexibility, real-time, decoupling, data integration, and hybrid deployments…
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Microservices = Death of the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)? – Slide Deck and Video Recording

In 2015, the middleware world focuses on two buzzwords: Docker and Microservices. Software vendors still sell products such as an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) or Complex Event Processing (CEP) engines. How is this related? This session discusses the requirements, best practices and challenges for creating a good Microservices architecture, and if this spells the end of the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).
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