/tags/kafka/Recent content in kafka on Rodrigo AraujoHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usMon, 15 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000/posts/from-synchronous-service-calls-to-message-passing-dataflow-systems/Mon, 15 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000/posts/from-synchronous-service-calls-to-message-passing-dataflow-systems/In this past year I have been working on a big system that is fundamentally an ETL to process real estate data across the US and Canada. I can’t talk much about the business details, but let’s say that if you’re browsing for real estate properties, it’s very likely you’re using this system. You’re welcome. Or I’m sorry, who knows? I joined this project from the very beginning. When I joined, a couple of technical decisions had been made.