Building Banking Systems with Kafka Streams with Mateo Rojas | Ep. 28

About this episode

Adi Polak interviews Mateo Rojas about his experience building banking systems with Kafka Streams.

Adi Polak talks to Mateo Rojas (LittleHorse) about his career working with Kafka Streams. Mateo’s first job: building a real-money policy management platform on early Kafka Streams. His challenge: working at LittleHorse with Kafka as a workflow engine and deciding whether it should be the source of truth. SEASON 2 Hosted by Tim Berglund, Adi Polak and Viktor Gamov Produced and Edited by Noelle Gallagher, Peter Furia and Nurie Mohamed Music by Coastal Kites Artwork by Phil Vo &n...

People in this episode

Hosts: Adi Polak, Tim Berglund, Viktor Gamov

Guest: Mateo Rojas

Topics covered

• Kafka Streams
• banking systems
• workflow engine
• policy management

Keywords

• real-money
• LittleHorse
• source of truth

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Kafka Streams

Books & works: Building Banking Systems

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