Busie: Building a Charter Platform From the Ground Up with Confluent Cloud

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This post details how Busie, a startup, built its Charter Platform using Confluent Cloud. It highlights their migration from a monolithic to a microservices architecture, emphasizing the adoption of an event-driven approach with Apache Kafka. Busie leveraged Confluent Cloud's managed connectors to ingest data from 13 PostgreSQL and MongoDB databases, breaking down data silos. They also utilized stream processing to create a unified data model for their 'Charter Experience Finder' (ChEF) search engine, significantly reducing load times and enabling features like dynamic pricing and real-time notifications. The post also mentions future plans to use Flink for real-time analytics and yield-based pricing.