CloudBank's Journey from Mainframe to Streaming with Confluent Cloud | Confluent

This post details CloudBank's journey from mainframe to a multi-cloud core banking software (Genesis) using Confluent Cloud. It highlights the challenges of data synchronization in traditional banking systems and the benefits of adopting Apache Kafka as a central data backbone for real-time processing and a single source of truth. The adoption of Confluent Cloud enabled them to achieve this, supporting a multi-cloud strategy with abstractions like Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes. The post emphasizes the shift from batch processing to event streaming for near real-time semantics and the operational challenges of self-managing Kafka in the cloud, which Confluent Cloud addressed.