Crypto Archives - Kai Waehner

Cloud Native Core Banking Platform powered by Apache Kafka Data Streaming

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Cloud-native Core Banking Modernization with Apache Kafka

ByKai Waehner
16. March 2022
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Most financial service institutions operate their core banking platform on legacy mainframe technologies. The monolithic, proprietary, inflexible architecture creates many challenges for innovation and cost-efficiency. This blog post explores three open, elastic, and scalable banking solutions powered by Apache Kafka to solve these problems.

Event Streaming as the Data Hub for Crypto NFT and Metaverse

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Apache Kafka as Data Hub for Crypto, DeFi, NFT, Metaverse – Beyond the Buzz

ByKai Waehner
4. February 2022
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Decentralized finance with crypto and NFTs is a huge topic these days. It becomes a powerful combination with the coming metaverse platforms across industries. This blog post explores the relationship between crypto technologies and modern enterprise architecture. I discuss how event streaming and Apache Kafka help build innovation and scalable real-time applications of a future metaverse. Let’s skip the buzz (and NFT bubble) and instead review existing real-world deployments in the crypto and blockchain world powered by Kafka and its ecosystem.