Watch this talk here: https://www.confluent.io/online-talks/benefits-of-stream-processing-and-apache-kafka-use-cases-on-demand This talk explains how companies are using event-driven architecture to transform their business and how Apache Kafka serves as the foundation for streaming data applications. Learn how major players in the market are using Kafka in a wide range of use cases such as microservices, IoT and edge computing, core banking and fraud detection, cyber data collection and dissemination, ESB replacement, data pipelining, ecommerce, mainframe offloading and more. Also discussed in this talk are the differences between Apache Kafka and Confluent Platform. This session is part 1 of 4 in our Fundamentals for Apache Kafka series.

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Fundamentals for Apache Kafka®
Benefits of Stream Processing and Apache Kafka Use Cases
Mark Fei, Sr. Technical Trainer, Confluent

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Session Schedule
● Session 1: Benefits of Stream Processing and Apache Kafka Use Cases
● Session 2: Apache Kafka Architecture & Fundamentals Explained
● Session 3: How Apache Kafka Works
● Session 4: Integrating Apache Kafka into your Environment

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Learning Objectives
After this module you will be able to:
● Identify the need for event-driven systems
● Name specific use cases where real-time data is
critical
● Explain the advantages of using Apache Kafka and
Confluent Platform as your Event Streaming platform

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Motivation
The shift to Event-driven Systems has Already Begun …

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Motivation
This leads us to …
A single platform to connect everyone to every event
Real-time streams of events
All events stored for historical view

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Motivation
Successful Digital Businesses are Inherently Event-driven
Born cloud-native … Traditional ones that adapt …
Social Networks
Enabling Event
Sharing
Streaming Provider
On-demand Digital
Content
Newspaper
Provide a single
Source of Truth
Credit Card Payments
Microservices
Architecture

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Motivation
Born cloud-native … Traditional ones that adapt …
Ride Hailing
Connecting
Provider with
Customer in real-
time
Connected Cars
IoT – Real-time
Traffic Routing

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Motivation
Apache Kafka: The De-
facto Standard for Real-
Time Event Streaming
• Global-scale
• Real-time
• Persistent Storage
• Stream Processing

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Motivation
Thousands of Companies Worldwide trust Kafka for their Journey
towards “Event-driven”
https://kafka.apache.org/powered-by

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Motivation
Over 35% of Fortune
500 Companies
Already Trust Kafka
for Mission Critical
Apps

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Real-time Fraud Detection
● Act in real-time
● Detect Fraud
● Minimize risk
● Improve customer experience

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Automotive
The Future of the
Automotive Industry is
a Real Time Data
Cluster

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Real-time e-Commerce
Rewards Program
● Onboarding new merchants faster
● Increased speed at which mobile
applications are delivered to customers
● Enabled a full 360 view of customers
● Enhanced performance and monitoring
● Projected savings of millions of dollars

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Customer 360
● Improved data integration
● Increased up-sell and cross-sell
opportunities
● Increased scalability and flexibility
● Saved costs

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Core Banking
● Empowered successful core banking platform
relaunch
● Met HA and SLA needs
● Improved scalability
● Power AI for ChatBots

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Online Gaming
Data Pipelining
● Increased reliability
● Accurate, real-time data
● Ability to process data at scale
● Faster ramp time

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Government
● Near real-time events and better data
quality
● Increased efficiency
● Ability to change their organization
● Produce & store population data from
several sources
● Reduce welfare crime through strengthened
identity management
● Provide better privacy and meet GDPR
requirements

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Financial Services
Customer communications
● Enhanced the customer experience
● Enabled “One Bank” strategy
Payments engine
● Improved fraud detection engine,
saving millions of euros
● Grew topics in production by 600
percent

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Confluent Platform

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Central Nervous System

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The Maturity Model
Kafka is a Good Starting Point, Confluent Completes the Journey

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Confluent Platform
Build a Central Nervous
System for your Modern
Event-driven Enterprise

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Confluent Platform
The Confluent Platform
enables companies to
respond accurately and in
real-time to business
events

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Confluent Platform
Confluent is Enabling Event-driven Transformation across Industries

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Confluent Platform
A Complete Set of Development, Operations, and Management Capabilities to run
Kafka at Scale

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Confluent Platform

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Confluent Platform Deployment Models

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Confluent Cloud

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Confluent Control Center
Kafka is powerful … but has many parts

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Confluent Control Center
Management and Monitoring for the Enterprise

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Confluent CLI
● Platforms: Linux, Unix-based
● License: Proprietary
● Packaging: Independent of CP
● Key Features:
○ RBAC management
○ Password protection
○ Subsumed confluent-cli
commands for local

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Role Based Access Control
● Availability: CP 5.3
Utilizes a predefined set of Roles
● User who is assigned a role receives all
privileges of that role
● Each user could belong to multiple roles
● Privileged user within a given scope can
create/update other user’s roles
● Privileged user can update roles for existing
users
● Across the platform (KSQL, Connect,
Schema Registry, Connectors, etc.)

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Confluent Operator
Confluent Operator for
Kubernetes runs on any
platform at any scale
What:
Deployment and management
automation for Confluent
Platform across environments
For Whom:
Organizations that have
standardized on Kubernetes as
the platform runtime

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Confluent – Feature Comparison
Feature Confluent Platform (On Premise) Confluent Cloud (Fully Managed)
Scale Unlimited throughput,
unlimited retention
Unlimited throughput,
unlimited retention (CCE)
Availability Self Managed 99.95% uptime SLA
Durability Self Managed Multi-AZ with 3 availability zones
(option)
Updates 3-4 Annual Releases Weekly Fully Managed Updates
Support 24x7 Gold and Platinum (option) 24x7 Gold SVPC peering (option)
Pricing Node based pricing Usage Based Pricing
Packaging/Environment Tarball, deb, rpm, zip,
Docker images
AWS, GCP, Azure

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Broad Connector Eco-System

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Confluent Hub
Discover and use
trusted sources and
sinks from Confluent,
our partners, and the
community.

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Confluent Hub
GOAL: Connect Everything!

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Continue your Apache Kafka Education!
● Confluent Operations for Apache Kafka
● Confluent Developer Skills for Building Apache Kafka
● Confluent Stream Processing using Apache Kafka
Streams and KSQL
● Confluent Advanced Skills for Optimizing Apache Kafka
For more details, seehttp://confluent.io/training

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Certifications
Confluent Certified Developer
for Apache Kafka
(aligns to Confluent Developer Skills
for Building Apache Kafka course)
Confluent Certified
Administrator for Apache
Kafka
(aligns to Confluent Operations Skills
for Apache Kafka)
What you Need to Know
○ Qualifications: 6-to-9 months hands-on
experience
○ Duration: 90 mins
○ Availability: Live, online 24/7
○ Cost: $150
○ Register online:
www.confluent.io/certification

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