I became the CTO of Zafin in January 2023 to focus on product development after many years at IBM in a consulting role. Zafin was extremely well positioned to address the banking core modernization challenge I was learning about so I was excited about Zafin and wanted to contribute to…
Building an experience that wows users instantly is directly proportional to the effort placed by the builders at every turn, every commit. Not to mention hundreds of hours wasted using bad products to form strong opinions. The time it takes to create your first, globally-distributed cluster from sign up in…
Fraud detection involves identifying fraudulent activities by analyzing patterns, behaviors, and anomalies in various types of data. Although to properly safeguard individuals, businesses, and financial institutions from fraudulent actions, it needs to happen as soon as the fraudulent activity occurs — in real time. Fraud detection can be broadly classified into…
The Software as a Service (SaaS) industry is showing unstoppable growth, with a projected $317.55 billion market size in 2024 almost quadrupling to $1,228.87 billion by 2032. This expansion highlights the growing need for enhanced and robust data strategies. This trend is propelled by the increasing volume, velocity and variety…
Change data capture (CDC) is a process that identifies and captures the changes made to the data in a database. It can identify the added, updated, or deleted records in a database and move those changes to different storage systems, including data warehouses, caches, and search indexes, to support different…
In Pub/Sub messaging systems, last value caching (LVC) is a common technique that allows new subscribers to quickly catch up to the latest state of the world. Imagine a stock ticker app that shows the current price for one or more symbols. When a new instance of the app starts…
The 24.1 release of Redpanda's streaming engine is arriving fast and furious, adding a write caching option for even better performance. It also brings the general availability of Data Transforms to users of Redpanda Community Edition and Redpanda Enterprise. Plus, Enterprise users get simplified permissions management with Role-Based Access Control…
Collecting, processing, and reacting to customer reviews in real time is crucial for brands. Firstly, it allows them to immediately identify and address issues for improved customer satisfaction. Secondly, it provides them with continuous feedback, which can be used to improve products or services. Lastly, it enables them to stay…
Around 60% of stream processing is spent on mundane transformation tasks. Format unification for machine learning (ML) workloads, filtering for privacy, simple enrichments like geo-IP translations — the list goes on. To stand up something “simple” often involves three or four distributed systems, multiple nights of reading configurations, and a…
Businesses running large-scale advertising campaigns need to analyze ad performance data as quickly as possible. Amazon Redshift, Amazon's fully managed petabyte-scale data warehouse, is a popular option as it enables the ingestion and processing of vast amounts of streaming ad event data in real time. Redshift is a fast, scalable,…