Powering Microservices with Event Streaming at SEI

What this post added

This post details SEI Investments' transition from a monolithic architecture to an event-driven architecture using Confluent Platform. It outlines their phased approach, starting with CDC from Oracle GoldenGate to capture raw data events, then transforming these into business events by joining related table updates based on System Change Numbers (SCNs). The post emphasizes the role of Confluent Schema Registry for Avro schema normalization and evolution, enabling forward and backward compatibility for producers and consumers. It also describes using Confluent Replicator for delivering near-real-time data streams to clients. Finally, it touches upon their ongoing move to containerized microservices on Kubernetes, with Kafka as the communication backbone and Schema Registry for payload governance.