“Event streaming” doesn’t refer to live streaming video of conferences, but rather providing large quantities of data as a real-time stream of events. Kafka can handle trillions of events a day.Among the organisations represented at the roundtable were FNB, Absa, Capitec, Vitality Group, Vodacom, Cell C, Discovery Insure, BankservAfrica, TransUnion, JDGroup, ABINBEV, and Hollard.
“Synthesis is Confluent’s trusted partner, having successfully established a data streaming platform that sets Data in Motion across organisations in South Africa,” said Confluent UKI & Africa Enterprise Account Executive, Jack Bingham. The infrastructure provided by Kafka lets you build around a single central nervous system that decouples systems and applications to liberate data across an organisation for real-time capture and processing.
BankservAfrica, a non-profit clearinghouse owned by South Africa’s big banks that facilitates interbank transactions, is using Kafka in a new payments system it plans to launch this year. BankservAfrica anticipates clearing 1,500 transactions per second over this system, and Bankserv believes its chosen technology will get it there.“As the event streaming capability was a new technology being introduced into my team, my existing developers had very little practical exposure to the product,” said Vitality Group Head of Integrations, Nic Mouyis.
Confluent’s Bingham also suggested that putting together a team to spearhead a Kafka project is often a great way to get the attention of the rest of the developers in an organisation. This forms the foundation of a centre of excellence to own the architecture, governance and operational best practices to scale new use cases.to convince architects to adopt Kafka.