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

Busie built a charter platform on Confluent Cloud, migrating from a monolithic and RESTful microservices architecture to an event-driven one. They integrated data from 13 PostgreSQL and MongoDB databases using Confluent Cloud's managed connectors and self-managed connectors on AWS ECS with Fargate. They developed a 'Charter Experience Finder' (ChEF) search engine that aggregates and enriches data from disparate sources within Confluent Cloud to create a unified data model optimized for search, pagination, and filtering. This shift-left processing approach reduced the loading time of their Range Operator Portal's core view by nearly 300%. They are also exploring the use of fully-managed Apache Flink for real-time analytics dashboards, yield-based pricing, and real-time vehicle location reporting.