The Fourth Industrial Revolution (also known as Industry 4.0) is the ongoing automation of traditional manufacturing and industrial practices, using modern smart technology.
Event Streaming with Apache Kafka plays a massive role in processing massive volumes of data in real-time in a reliable, scalable, and flexible way integrating with various legacy and modern data sources and sinks.
In this presentation, I want to give you an overview of existing use cases for event streaming technology in a connected world across supply chains, industries and customer experiences that come along with these interdisciplinary data intersections:
• The Automotive Industry (and it’s not only Connected Cars)
• Mobility Services across verticals (transportation, logistics, travel industry, retailing, …)
• Smart Cities (including citizen health services, communication infrastructure, …)
All these industries and sectors do not have new characteristics and requirements. They require data integration, data correlation or real decoupling, just to name a few, but are now facing massively increased volumes of data.
Real-time messaging solutions have existed for many years. Hundreds of platforms exist for data integration (including ETL and ESB tooling or specific IIoT platforms). Proprietary monoliths monitor plants, telco networks, and other infrastructures for decades in real-time. But now, Kafka combines all the above characteristics in an open, scalable, and flexible infrastructure to operate mission-critical workloads at scale in real-time. And is taking over the world of connecting data.