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Global Payment Processor Built with Data Streaming using Apache Kafka at Stripe Paypal Payoneer Worldline
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How Global Payment Processors like Stripe and PayPal Use Data Streaming to Scale

This blog post explores how leading payment processors like Stripe, PayPal, Payoneer, and Worldline are leveraging data streaming with Apache Kafka to power real-time, scalable, and secure financial systems. As the industry shifts from batch processing to event-driven architecture, data streaming has become essential for handling transactions, fraud detection, compliance, and embedded services. The post highlights why Kafka is at the core of modern payment infrastructure – and how it enables innovation, resilience, and operational agility in the evolving fintech landscape.
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The Rise of Diskless Apache Kafka with Object Storage and No Brokers
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The Rise of Diskless Kafka: Rethinking Brokers, Storage, and the Kafka Protocol

Apache Kafka has evolved from a data lake pipeline into the backbone of real-time transactional systems. The shift from broker-based storage to Tiered Storage and now to Diskless Kafka using cloud object storage redefines Kafka’s role. This blog explores the business value, technical architecture, and use cases of running Kafka without brokers, using the Kafka protocol as the foundation for scalable, cost-efficient event streaming.
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Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging - Automotive and ESG with Data Streaming at Virta
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Virta’s Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Platform with Real-Time Data Streaming: Scalability for Large Charging Businesses

The rise of Electric Vehicles (EVs) demands a scalable, efficient charging network—but challenges like fluctuating demand, complex billing, and real-time availability updates must be addressed. Virta, a global leader in smart EV charging, is tackling these issues with real-time data streaming. By leveraging Apache Kafka and Confluent Cloud, Virta enhances energy distribution, enables predictive maintenance, and supports dynamic pricing. This approach optimizes operations, improves user experience, and drives sustainability. Discover how real-time data streaming is shaping the future of EV charging and enabling intelligent, scalable infrastructure.
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The Importance of Focus for Software and Cloud Vendors - Data Streaming with Apache Kafka and Flink
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The Importance of Focus: Why Software Vendors Should Specialize Instead of Doing Everything (Example: Data Streaming)

As real-time technologies reshape IT architectures, software vendors face a critical decision: specialize deeply in one domain or build a broad, general-purpose stack. This blog examines why a focused approach—particularly in the world of data streaming—delivers greater innovation, scalability, and reliability. It compares leading platforms and strategies, from specialized providers like Confluent to generalist cloud ecosystems, and highlights the operational risks of fragmented tools. With data streaming emerging as its own software category, enterprises need clarity, consistency, and deep expertise. In this post, we argue that specialization—not breadth—is what powers mission-critical, real-time applications at global scale.
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Data Streaming with Apache Kafka and Flink as the Backbone for a B2B Data Marketplace
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Data Streaming as the Technical Foundation for a B2B Marketplace

A B2B data marketplace empowers businesses to exchange, monetize, and leverage real-time data through self-service platforms featuring subscription management, usage-based billing, and secure data sharing. Built on data streaming technologies like Apache Kafka and Flink, these marketplaces deliver scalable, event-driven architectures for seamless integration, real-time processing, and compliance. By exploring successful implementations like AppDirect, this post highlights how organizations can unlock new revenue streams and foster innovation with modern data marketplace solutions.
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SaaS vs PaaS Cloud Service for Data Streaming with Apache Kafka and Flink
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Fully Managed (SaaS) vs. Partially Managed (PaaS) Cloud Services for Data Streaming with Kafka and Flink

The cloud revolution has reshaped how businesses deploy and manage data streaming with solutions like Apache Kafka and Flink. Distinctions between SaaS and PaaS models significantly impact scalability, cost, and operational complexity. Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) expands the options, giving businesses greater flexibility in cloud deployment. Misconceptions around terms like “serverless” highlight the need for deeper analysis to avoid marketing pitfalls. This blog explores deployment options, enabling informed decisions tailored to your data streaming needs.
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Intelligent Traffic System for Tolling with Dynamic Pricing and Enforcement with Apache Kafka
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IoT and Data Streaming with Kafka for a Tolling Traffic System with Dynamic Pricing

In the rapidly evolving landscape of intelligent traffic systems, innovative software provides real-time processing capabilities, dynamic pricing and new customer experiences, particularly in the domains of tolling, payments and safety inspection. This blog post explores success stories from Quarterhill and DKV Mobility providing traffic and payment systems for tolls. Data streaming powered by Apache Kafka has been pivotal in the journey towards building intelligent traffic systems in the cloud.
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Fraud Prevention with Apache Kafka in Real Time in Financial Services and Banking
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Fraud Prevention in Under 60 Seconds with Apache Kafka: How A Bank in Thailand is Leading the Charge

In financial services, the ability to prevent fraud in real-time is not just a competitive advantage – it is a necessity. For one of the largest banks in Thailand Krungsri (Bank of Ayudhya), with its vast assets, loans, and deposits, the challenge of fraud prevention has taken center stage. This blog post explores how the bank is leveraging data streaming with Apache Kafka to detect and block fraudulent transactions in under 60 seconds to ensure the safety and trust of its customers.
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Apache Kafka Deployment Options - Serverless vs Self-Managed vs BYOC Bring Your Own Cloud
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Deployment Options for Apache Kafka: Self-Managed, Fully-Managed / Serverless and BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud)

BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud) is an emerging deployment model for organizations looking to maintain greater control over their cloud environments. Unlike traditional SaaS models, BYOC allows businesses to host applications within their own VPCs to provide enhanced data privacy, security, and compliance. This approach leverages existing cloud infrastructure. It offers more flexibility for custom configurations, particularly for companies with stringent security needs. In the data streaming sector around Apache Kafka, BYOC is changing how platforms are deployed. Organizations get more control and adaptability for various use cases. But it is clearly NOT the right choice for everyone!
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Multi-Cloud Replication in Real-Time with Apache Kafka and Cluster Linking
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Multi-Cloud Replication in Real-Time with Apache Kafka and Cluster Linking

Multiple Apache Kafka clusters are the norm; not an exception anymore. Hybrid integration and multi-cloud replication for migration or disaster recovery are common use cases. This blog post explores a real-world success story from financial services around the transition of a large traditional bank from on-premise data centers into the public cloud for multi-cloud data sharing between AWS and Azure.
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