The value of an architecture doesn’t lie in a static picture on a whiteboard or even a well formed POC. It lies in a system’s ability to evolve over time. To grow and expand, not simply in terms of data, throughput or numbers of users, but as teams and organisation grow.

Streaming Platforms provide a unique basis for such systems. They embrace asynchronicity first and foremost. Forming a narrative of events that flow from service to service. But events are more than just a communication protocol. They are the facts of our business. A shared dataset sitting at the very heart of our system.

In this talk we’ll examine how Streaming Platforms change the way we build business applications. How we can embrace fine grained event driven services, wrap them in efficient transactional guarantees, and evolve our way forwards from legacies of old.