1. Autostrade per l'Italia is a leading Italian motorway operator undergoing a digital transformation.
2. They are using Confluent Cloud and Kafka to create a single data layer, eliminate data silos, and democratize data access in order to become more data-driven.
3. Several projects are using Confluent Cloud, including monitoring traffic in real-time, enriching electronic toll data, and integrating plant monitoring data from different sources into a single reporting system.
Javier Benitez's talk from the 2017 Open Networking Summit.
Colt is transforming the way they do business and offer network services to customers through the adoption of SDN & NFV as part of a company-wide transformation program called Novitas. Javier Benitez will focus in this presentation on active Colt’s Novitas developments, sharing with the audience their experience in deploying SDN & NFV solutions in production both for Ethernet and IP services, the learning associated as well as their future plans. In particular, Javier Benitez will cover Colt developments around Ethernet & IP on Demand, SD VPN, SDN controlled MPLS packet core and SDN/NFV NNI standardization.
DEVNET-1153 Enterprise Application to Infrastructure Integration – SDN AppsCisco DevNet
We've all heard about SDN and how SDN provides flexible networks to solve networks operation challenges. With respect to SDN Applications, the most obvious conversation is about network applications and services. But today we will discuss how we at Cisco are addressing business challenges and impact business outcomes directly by connecting two disparate worlds of Enterprise applications (EA) and Networking stack using Cisco Integration Platform (CIP).
Javier Benitez's talk from the 2017 Open Networking Summit.
Colt is transforming the way they do business and offer network services to customers through the adoption of SDN & NFV as part of a company-wide transformation program called Novitas. Javier Benitez will focus in this presentation on active Colt’s Novitas developments, sharing with the audience their experience in deploying SDN & NFV solutions in production both for Ethernet and IP services, the learning associated as well as their future plans. In particular, Javier Benitez will cover Colt developments around Ethernet & IP on Demand, SD VPN, SDN controlled MPLS packet core and SDN/NFV NNI standardization.
DEVNET-1153 Enterprise Application to Infrastructure Integration – SDN AppsCisco DevNet
We've all heard about SDN and how SDN provides flexible networks to solve networks operation challenges. With respect to SDN Applications, the most obvious conversation is about network applications and services. But today we will discuss how we at Cisco are addressing business challenges and impact business outcomes directly by connecting two disparate worlds of Enterprise applications (EA) and Networking stack using Cisco Integration Platform (CIP).
ICC"s icXchange IP data networking solution data (icXcloud) and device (icXmanager) management systems enable full view of the ICC solutions regardless of location, type, and size of network. Designed to decouple the cost of management and the devices, ICC's solution also enables the separation of the device from the management for clients with particularly sensitive cost structures.
SCALES: Supply Chain Architecture Leading to Enhanced Services Fabio Massimi
SCALES is a project funded by the 2018 eInvoicing call of the
Connecting Europe Facility programme. AgID coordinates a mixed public/private consortium formed by: Politecnico di
Milano DIG, UNINFO, InfoCert and Consorzio DAFNE. The objective of SCALES is the design and implementation of a digital supply chain architecture enabling value-added services for enterprises and public administrations.
Delivering Application Analytics for an Application Fluent NetworkBenjamin Eggerstedt
Managing and designing an enterprise network is becoming more complex. Delivering real-time applications is a top priority for business managers today, while the number
of applications used in the enterprises is growing. Because of these next-generation applications, the level of performance required from the corporate network is far beyond the needs of the typical enterprise application in terms of throughput and latency. The existing business critical applications then require bandwidth with higher quality of service to run the business.
The volume of traffic on wired and wireless enterprise networks is rapidly increasing, adding to the tasks of the already burdened IT administrator. Mobility and virtualization add an unprecedented level of complexity, because the network is no longer statically provisioned with well-known workloads. Traditionally, the enterprise network has played a limited role in optimizing application delivery: It has simply transported
raw information from place to place without regard to the application’s individual requirements. In this environment, architects have designed the network with enough raw bandwidth to meet peak application delivery requirements. This approach — known as over-provisioning — has provided an adequate user experience, but it is clearly a costly model for network design. At the same time, the enterprise networking budget is also being stretched to handle the additional network requirements.
Oracle Open World 2018 - Cloud Lift Accelerator SuiteIke Aniagoh
Organizations are increasingly leveraging infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) as part of their cloud journey. To help accelerate the cloud migration, Cognizant created a Cloud Lift Accelerator Suite comprised of CloudFit assessment, OneClickInfra, OneClickSOA, OneClickDB, and CloudLift ACE tools. The Cloud Lift Accelerator Suite is a Perl, Linux shell scripts, and Python–based toolset powered with Terraform and Oracle migration utilities. The toolset is configured to transform an output of CloudFit Assessment into Terraform and CLI programs and builds the code foundation to manage infrastructure as code. This session provides an overview of Cloud Lift Accelerator Suite, its benefits, and a demo of how the toolsets work and help accelerate cloud migration.
Identifying Bottlenecks in Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC)Dr. Ranbijay Kumar
Client side performance is important in today’s world because of the gaining popularity of rich internet applications and the growth in the mobile applications market. The customers are also looking for high responsiveness for any client based applications. More of us use our mobile phones as our mini-computers that travel with us and keep us connected 24/7, and that number will surely continue to grow. Mobile applications developers increasingly turn around to cloud computing to circumvent the major challenges that face them.
Service Mesh: Two Big Words But Do You Need It?DevOps.com
Today, one of the big concepts buzzing in the app development world is service mesh. A service mesh is a configurable infrastructure layer for microservices application that makes communication flexible, reliable and fast. Let’s take a step back, though, and answer this question: Do you need a service mesh?
Join this webinar to learn:
What a service mesh is; when and why you need it — or when and why you may not
App modernization journey and traffic management approaches for microservices-based apps
How to make an informed decision based on cost and complexity before adopting service mesh
Learn about NGINX Service Mesh in a live demo, and how it provides the best service mesh option for container-based L7 traffic management
Cotendo Cloudlet™ is a modern approach to deploying key dynamic site processing logic to edge locations. Cloudlet enables delivery decisions and content transformation to be made very close to the user, with response much faster than even accelerated connections to the origin site can provide. Decisions and logic based on geography, devices, and request routing, to name a few, can be optimally processed and expedited via Cloudlets.
ICC"s icXchange IP data networking solution data (icXcloud) and device (icXmanager) management systems enable full view of the ICC solutions regardless of location, type, and size of network. Designed to decouple the cost of management and the devices, ICC's solution also enables the separation of the device from the management for clients with particularly sensitive cost structures.
SCALES: Supply Chain Architecture Leading to Enhanced Services Fabio Massimi
SCALES is a project funded by the 2018 eInvoicing call of the
Connecting Europe Facility programme. AgID coordinates a mixed public/private consortium formed by: Politecnico di
Milano DIG, UNINFO, InfoCert and Consorzio DAFNE. The objective of SCALES is the design and implementation of a digital supply chain architecture enabling value-added services for enterprises and public administrations.
Delivering Application Analytics for an Application Fluent NetworkBenjamin Eggerstedt
Managing and designing an enterprise network is becoming more complex. Delivering real-time applications is a top priority for business managers today, while the number
of applications used in the enterprises is growing. Because of these next-generation applications, the level of performance required from the corporate network is far beyond the needs of the typical enterprise application in terms of throughput and latency. The existing business critical applications then require bandwidth with higher quality of service to run the business.
The volume of traffic on wired and wireless enterprise networks is rapidly increasing, adding to the tasks of the already burdened IT administrator. Mobility and virtualization add an unprecedented level of complexity, because the network is no longer statically provisioned with well-known workloads. Traditionally, the enterprise network has played a limited role in optimizing application delivery: It has simply transported
raw information from place to place without regard to the application’s individual requirements. In this environment, architects have designed the network with enough raw bandwidth to meet peak application delivery requirements. This approach — known as over-provisioning — has provided an adequate user experience, but it is clearly a costly model for network design. At the same time, the enterprise networking budget is also being stretched to handle the additional network requirements.
Oracle Open World 2018 - Cloud Lift Accelerator SuiteIke Aniagoh
Organizations are increasingly leveraging infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) as part of their cloud journey. To help accelerate the cloud migration, Cognizant created a Cloud Lift Accelerator Suite comprised of CloudFit assessment, OneClickInfra, OneClickSOA, OneClickDB, and CloudLift ACE tools. The Cloud Lift Accelerator Suite is a Perl, Linux shell scripts, and Python–based toolset powered with Terraform and Oracle migration utilities. The toolset is configured to transform an output of CloudFit Assessment into Terraform and CLI programs and builds the code foundation to manage infrastructure as code. This session provides an overview of Cloud Lift Accelerator Suite, its benefits, and a demo of how the toolsets work and help accelerate cloud migration.
Identifying Bottlenecks in Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC)Dr. Ranbijay Kumar
Client side performance is important in today’s world because of the gaining popularity of rich internet applications and the growth in the mobile applications market. The customers are also looking for high responsiveness for any client based applications. More of us use our mobile phones as our mini-computers that travel with us and keep us connected 24/7, and that number will surely continue to grow. Mobile applications developers increasingly turn around to cloud computing to circumvent the major challenges that face them.
Service Mesh: Two Big Words But Do You Need It?DevOps.com
Today, one of the big concepts buzzing in the app development world is service mesh. A service mesh is a configurable infrastructure layer for microservices application that makes communication flexible, reliable and fast. Let’s take a step back, though, and answer this question: Do you need a service mesh?
Join this webinar to learn:
What a service mesh is; when and why you need it — or when and why you may not
App modernization journey and traffic management approaches for microservices-based apps
How to make an informed decision based on cost and complexity before adopting service mesh
Learn about NGINX Service Mesh in a live demo, and how it provides the best service mesh option for container-based L7 traffic management
Cotendo Cloudlet™ is a modern approach to deploying key dynamic site processing logic to edge locations. Cloudlet enables delivery decisions and content transformation to be made very close to the user, with response much faster than even accelerated connections to the origin site can provide. Decisions and logic based on geography, devices, and request routing, to name a few, can be optimally processed and expedited via Cloudlets.
Catch the Wave: SAP Event-Driven and Data Streaming for the Intelligence Ente...confluent
In our exclusive webinar, you'll learn why event-driven architecture is the key to unlocking cost efficiency, operational effectiveness, and profitability. Gain insights on how this approach differs from API-driven methods and why it's essential for your organization's success.
Unlocking the Power of IoT: A comprehensive approach to real-time insightsconfluent
In today's data-driven world, the Internet of Things (IoT) is revolutionizing industries and unlocking new possibilities. Join Data Reply, Confluent, and Imply as we unveil a comprehensive solution for IoT that harnesses the power of real-time insights.
Workshop híbrido: Stream Processing con Flinkconfluent
El Stream processing es un requisito previo de la pila de data streaming, que impulsa aplicaciones y pipelines en tiempo real.
Permite una mayor portabilidad de datos, una utilización optimizada de recursos y una mejor experiencia del cliente al procesar flujos de datos en tiempo real.
En nuestro taller práctico híbrido, aprenderás cómo filtrar, unir y enriquecer fácilmente datos en tiempo real dentro de Confluent Cloud utilizando nuestro servicio Flink sin servidor.
Industry 4.0: Building the Unified Namespace with Confluent, HiveMQ and Spark...confluent
Our talk will explore the transformative impact of integrating Confluent, HiveMQ, and SparkPlug in Industry 4.0, emphasizing the creation of a Unified Namespace.
In addition to the creation of a Unified Namespace, our webinar will also delve into Stream Governance and Scaling, highlighting how these aspects are crucial for managing complex data flows and ensuring robust, scalable IIoT-Platforms.
You will learn how to ensure data accuracy and reliability, expand your data processing capabilities, and optimize your data management processes.
Don't miss out on this opportunity to learn from industry experts and take your business to the next level.
La arquitectura impulsada por eventos (EDA) será el corazón del ecosistema de MAPFRE. Para seguir siendo competitivas, las empresas de hoy dependen cada vez más del análisis de datos en tiempo real, lo que les permite obtener información y tiempos de respuesta más rápidos. Los negocios con datos en tiempo real consisten en tomar conciencia de la situación, detectar y responder a lo que está sucediendo en el mundo ahora.
Eventos y Microservicios - Santander TechTalkconfluent
Durante esta sesión examinaremos cómo el mundo de los eventos y los microservicios se complementan y mejoran explorando cómo los patrones basados en eventos nos permiten descomponer monolitos de manera escalable, resiliente y desacoplada.
Purpose of the session is to have a dive into Apache, Kafka, Data Streaming and Kafka in the cloud
- Dive into Apache Kafka
- Data Streaming
- Kafka in the cloud
Build real-time streaming data pipelines to AWS with Confluentconfluent
Traditional data pipelines often face scalability issues and challenges related to cost, their monolithic design, and reliance on batch data processing. They also typically operate under the premise that all data needs to be stored in a single centralized data source before it's put to practical use. Confluent Cloud on Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a fully managed cloud-native platform that helps you simplify the way you build real-time data flows using streaming data pipelines and Apache Kafka.
Q&A with Confluent Professional Services: Confluent Service Meshconfluent
No matter whether you are migrating your Kafka cluster to Confluent Cloud, running a cloud-hybrid environment or are in a different situation where data protection and encryption of sensitive information is required, Confluent Service Mesh allows you to transparently encrypt your data without the need to make code changes to you existing applications.
Citi Tech Talk: Event Driven Kafka Microservicesconfluent
Microservices have become a dominant architectural paradigm for building systems in the enterprise, but they are not without their tradeoffs. Learn how to build event-driven microservices with Apache Kafka
Confluent & GSI Webinars series - Session 3confluent
An in depth look at how Confluent is being used in the financial services industry. Gain an understanding of how organisations are utilising data in motion to solve common problems and gain benefits from their real time data capabilities.
It will look more deeply into some specific use cases and show how Confluent technology is used to manage costs and mitigate risks.
This session is aimed at Solutions Architects, Sales Engineers and Pre Sales, and also the more technically minded business aligned people. Whilst this is not a deeply technical session, a level of knowledge around Kafka would be helpful.
Transforming applications built with traditional messaging solutions such as TIBCO, MQ and Solace to be scalable, reliable and ready for the move to cloud
How can applications built with traditional messaging technologies like TIBCO, Solace and IBM MQ be modernised and be made cloud ready? What are the advantages to Event Streaming approaches to pub/sub vs traditional message queues? What are the strengeths and weaknesses of both approaches, and what use cases and requirements are actually a better fit for messaging than Kafka?
This session will show why the old paradigm does not work and that a new approach to the data strategy needs to be taken. It aims to show how a Data Streaming Platform is integral to the evolution of a company’s data strategy and how Confluent is not just an integration layer but the central nervous system for an organisation
Vous apprendrez également à :
• Créer plus rapidement des produits et fonctionnalités à l’aide d’une suite complète de connecteurs et d’outils de gestion des flux, et à connecter vos environnements à des pipelines de données
• Protéger vos données et charges de travail les plus critiques grâce à des garanties intégrées en matière de sécurité, de gouvernance et de résilience
• Déployer Kafka à grande échelle en quelques minutes tout en réduisant les coûts et la charge opérationnelle associés
Confluent Partner Tech Talk with Synthesisconfluent
A discussion on the arduous planning process, and deep dive into the design/architectural decisions.
Learn more about the networking, RBAC strategies, the automation, and the deployment plan.
Field Employee Tracking System| MiTrack App| Best Employee Tracking Solution|...informapgpstrackings
Keep tabs on your field staff effortlessly with Informap Technology Centre LLC. Real-time tracking, task assignment, and smart features for efficient management. Request a live demo today!
For more details, visit us : https://informapuae.com/field-staff-tracking/
Experience our free, in-depth three-part Tendenci Platform Corporate Membership Management workshop series! In Session 1 on May 14th, 2024, we began with an Introduction and Setup, mastering the configuration of your Corporate Membership Module settings to establish membership types, applications, and more. Then, on May 16th, 2024, in Session 2, we focused on binding individual members to a Corporate Membership and Corporate Reps, teaching you how to add individual members and assign Corporate Representatives to manage dues, renewals, and associated members. Finally, on May 28th, 2024, in Session 3, we covered questions and concerns, addressing any queries or issues you may have.
For more Tendenci AMS events, check out www.tendenci.com/events
Enterprise Resource Planning System includes various modules that reduce any business's workload. Additionally, it organizes the workflows, which drives towards enhancing productivity. Here are a detailed explanation of the ERP modules. Going through the points will help you understand how the software is changing the work dynamics.
To know more details here: https://blogs.nyggs.com/nyggs/enterprise-resource-planning-erp-system-modules/
Custom Healthcare Software for Managing Chronic Conditions and Remote Patient...Mind IT Systems
Healthcare providers often struggle with the complexities of chronic conditions and remote patient monitoring, as each patient requires personalized care and ongoing monitoring. Off-the-shelf solutions may not meet these diverse needs, leading to inefficiencies and gaps in care. It’s here, custom healthcare software offers a tailored solution, ensuring improved care and effectiveness.
Large Language Models and the End of ProgrammingMatt Welsh
Talk by Matt Welsh at Craft Conference 2024 on the impact that Large Language Models will have on the future of software development. In this talk, I discuss the ways in which LLMs will impact the software industry, from replacing human software developers with AI, to replacing conventional software with models that perform reasoning, computation, and problem-solving.
Enhancing Project Management Efficiency_ Leveraging AI Tools like ChatGPT.pdfJay Das
With the advent of artificial intelligence or AI tools, project management processes are undergoing a transformative shift. By using tools like ChatGPT, and Bard organizations can empower their leaders and managers to plan, execute, and monitor projects more effectively.
A Comprehensive Look at Generative AI in Retail App Testing.pdfkalichargn70th171
Traditional software testing methods are being challenged in retail, where customer expectations and technological advancements continually shape the landscape. Enter generative AI—a transformative subset of artificial intelligence technologies poised to revolutionize software testing.
Providing Globus Services to Users of JASMIN for Environmental Data AnalysisGlobus
JASMIN is the UK’s high-performance data analysis platform for environmental science, operated by STFC on behalf of the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). In addition to its role in hosting the CEDA Archive (NERC’s long-term repository for climate, atmospheric science & Earth observation data in the UK), JASMIN provides a collaborative platform to a community of around 2,000 scientists in the UK and beyond, providing nearly 400 environmental science projects with working space, compute resources and tools to facilitate their work. High-performance data transfer into and out of JASMIN has always been a key feature, with many scientists bringing model outputs from supercomputers elsewhere in the UK, to analyse against observational or other model data in the CEDA Archive. A growing number of JASMIN users are now realising the benefits of using the Globus service to provide reliable and efficient data movement and other tasks in this and other contexts. Further use cases involve long-distance (intercontinental) transfers to and from JASMIN, and collecting results from a mobile atmospheric radar system, pushing data to JASMIN via a lightweight Globus deployment. We provide details of how Globus fits into our current infrastructure, our experience of the recent migration to GCSv5.4, and of our interest in developing use of the wider ecosystem of Globus services for the benefit of our user community.
Understanding Globus Data Transfers with NetSageGlobus
NetSage is an open privacy-aware network measurement, analysis, and visualization service designed to help end-users visualize and reason about large data transfers. NetSage traditionally has used a combination of passive measurements, including SNMP and flow data, as well as active measurements, mainly perfSONAR, to provide longitudinal network performance data visualization. It has been deployed by dozens of networks world wide, and is supported domestically by the Engagement and Performance Operations Center (EPOC), NSF #2328479. We have recently expanded the NetSage data sources to include logs for Globus data transfers, following the same privacy-preserving approach as for Flow data. Using the logs for the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) as an example, this talk will walk through several different example use cases that NetSage can answer, including: Who is using Globus to share data with my institution, and what kind of performance are they able to achieve? How many transfers has Globus supported for us? Which sites are we sharing the most data with, and how is that changing over time? How is my site using Globus to move data internally, and what kind of performance do we see for those transfers? What percentage of data transfers at my institution used Globus, and how did the overall data transfer performance compare to the Globus users?
First Steps with Globus Compute Multi-User EndpointsGlobus
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In this slide, we show the simulation example and the way to compile this solver.
In this solver, the Helmholtz equation can be solved by helmholtzFoam. Also, the Helmholtz equation with uniformly dispersed bubbles can be simulated by helmholtzBubbleFoam.
Check out the webinar slides to learn more about how XfilesPro transforms Salesforce document management by leveraging its world-class applications. For more details, please connect with sales@xfilespro.com
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Confluent Cloud inside the Digital Transformation of Autostrade per l’Italia
1. Confluent Cloud – Data in Motion
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Confluent Cloud inside
the Digital
Transformation of
Autostrade per l’Italia
Confluent Cloud – Data in Motion
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2. Confluent Cloud – Data in Motion
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1. Company Presentation
2. ASPI Digital Transformation
3. The use of Kafka in ASPI
4. Confluent Cloud Migration
5. Next Steps
AGENDA
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3
2.855 km
of motorway in Italy
6,1 Billion €
+110% of investiments
in 2020/24 vs 2015/19
nearly 5.300
employees
204
Service Areas
1.907
Variable-message signs
along the network
4.991
cameras
3 Billion
€
of revenues Autostrade per l'Italia is one of Europe's leading
concessionaries for the construction and management
of toll motorways, with around 3,000 km of network
managed in Italy.
The Autostrade per l'Italia group includes five other
motorway concession companies and seven
companies that provide ancillary services to the core
motorway business and play a key role in
implementing the Company's transformation plan.
• Società Italiana
Traforo del Montebianco
• Raccordo Autostradale Valle d’Aosta
• Tangenziale di Napoli
• Autostrade Meridionali
• Società Autostradale Tirrenica
• Movyon
• Tecne
• Amplia Infrastructures
• Free-to-Experience
• Elgea
• Admoving
• Esse di Esse
• Giove clear
THE GROUP
THE COMPANY
2,5 Billion €
+60% of maint. costs
in 2020/24 vs 2015/19
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«Next To Digital» INITIATIVE
The Next To Digital initiative is included in the wide
Transformation Plan of Autostrade per l’Italia.
This initiative is the fundamental lever to guide and promote a
deep change in ASPI at multiple levels: new ways of working,
new technological capabilities, new skills to develop, new ways
of addressing all stakeholders (internal and external) and, finally, a
significant cultural change.
It concerns the digitalization of processes and services,
transformation of the road network into a "smart" infrastructure
through the most advanced technologies.
NtD initiative address these aims:
• Internal efficiency
• Civil infrastructure management and security
• Customer experience
200 Million €
of investment by 2024
+ 30 agile room
to develop End-to-End
innovative projects
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«Next To Digital» PROJECTS
Predictive models of traffic flows for planning construction sites
to minimize the impact on the road network (estimation of any
inconvenience caused and calculation of tariff discounts)
Real-time monitoring and alerting systems in relation to traffic
disruptions (e.g. road accidents) or road congestion on the network
due to:
- Proactive and dynamic management of lanes and speed limits
- Preventive deployment of traffic/rescue teams
New services for users: Recommended times for departure;
advance calculation of the toll; recommended restaurants,
attractions and places of interest along the route
Additional services in the service area (e.g. parking, "skip the line"
table reservation) and on the network (e.g. advance toll payment)
Digital communication channel between the customer and
Autostrade for distress alerts requests, complaints, assistance and
automatic processing of requests via Virtual Agent.
6. Confluent Cloud – Data in Motion
06/10/2022
Why Kafka?
• Become a Data Driven company
• Create a unique data layer to support Event Driven
architecture
• Eliminate Data Silos
• Provide Data Democratization through REST API
• Provide Standardization through JSON, AVRO
• Data Security with Zero Trust approach
Confluent Kafka has been chosen to accomplish Autostrade per l’Italia’s goals:
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Business Cases and Architecture
8. Confluent Cloud – Data in Motion
06/10/2022
Online Monitoring Traffic
GOAL
Monitor and analyze transit on tracks collected at toll booth in near real time.
HOW
RESULTS
Change-Data-Capture pattern of Confluent Cloud with 2 sync connectors.
• RAW data converted to JSON
formats for easier usability with
REST API
• Freshness of information for
end users
• Decoupling systems for less
overhead on DB2
9. Confluent Cloud – Data in Motion
06/10/2022
Electronic Toll enrichment
GOAL
Implementation of an on-cloud application that allows the management
of every aspect of the rectification traffic life cycle for users and special
users.
HOW
RESULTS
Raw Data is normalized and democratized through Kstream Java App
With Confluent Kafka, through the KStream we are able to deal with
data that was previously on silos to have a gain on data governance
on the outgoing DBMS.
10. Confluent Cloud – Data in Motion
06/10/2022
Integration Layer "CEM Impianti"
GOAL
Standardize the monitoring data and render them accessible via front end for reporting / monitoring activities.
HOW
RESULTS
Unique Integration Layer to collect data from OT Plants based on 3 steps:
• Mapping of monitoring data
• Data definition and Normalization
• Front-End for reporting and analytics
• Greater usability of data
• Reduced interventions time
• Best use of resources
• Reduction of low added value
activities
11. Confluent Cloud – Data in Motion
06/10/2022
PISTA 2.0
Most complex project based on Confluent Cloud (in evolution…)
GOAL
Refactoring of the message production and dispatching system from all the toll booths on the highway to a single Data Layer.
HOW
RESULTS
Provide a formal definition of the data using AVRO Schema, useful for:
• Manage information as a resource
• Create a process aimed at managing the data
• Data preparation and enrichment
• No use of DB for first ingestion of message acquisition
• Event Streaming – Ready
• Provide data detectability, monitoring and security
throughout its life cycle
12. Confluent Cloud – Data in Motion
06/10/2022
PISTA 2.0 Architecture
13. Confluent Cloud – Data in Motion
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13
13
Confluent Platform migration
to Confluent Cloud
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Migration to Confluent Cloud
SCENARIO
The migration from Confluent Platform to Confluent Cloud involved 15 Applications, mostly
based on collecting data from tracks and plants.
PROJECT
USE CASES
Autostrade per l’Italia started a multi-year modernization project that relies on the
transition from on-premise systems to Cloud platforms for increasing speed to
accomplish business requests and reduce low value-added activities.
• Pista 2.0 - First acquisition of transits and plate tracking on the toll booth
• Plants - Spooling of messages from suburbs to center
• TUTOR - collecting events
• Infoviability - collecting data from sensors on track
• Xmonit - Realtime monitoring and integration of plants
• FreeToX – Cashback system for customers
• Service Area – Smart services on the services area on the highway
15. Confluent Cloud – Data in Motion
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Confluent Platform
• 3 different environments on-premises
• Ansible playbooks for configurations
• Custom connectors
• Manage infrastructure for updates and develop new features
• Not scalable
• Storage tiering needed
• Managing Load Balancing for Kafka Brokers
ENVIRONMENTS
PROS
CONS
SVIL TEST PROD
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Confluent Cloud Architecture
ENVIRONMENTS
• Prod and noProd environments for data segregation
• Teampass as a Password Manager for Client API Keys & Secrets
• Zabbix as ASPI main Monitoring Platform
PROS
CONS
• 99.99% SLA
• Autoscaling
• No patching or planned maintenance
• Infinite Storage
• Easily connected via AWS Transit Gateway
• Users ACL: access to Control Center for Data Lineage view
• Kafka Connect onprem for custom use cases
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Next Steps
TRAFFIC PROJECT
IoT/MQTT
Refactoring of the functional perimeter, based on more than 70 applications, linked to the
collection and management of payments and transit data on the track. Main problems are:
• Highly interconnected area with strong dependencies between functional levels
• Highly standardized architectures based on legacy technologies and integration models (eg.: DB2,
db-to-db views).
• No API
• No Data Democratization
• No SecDevOps approach
• Solution: Confluent Cloud as single layer for Data acquisition & preparation.
Provide an enterprise platform for MQTT to manage messages from IoT devices and lay the
foundation for Event Driven Architecture.
• Main products identified: EMQX, HiveMQ, VerneMQ.
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THANK YOU
Confluent Cloud – Data in Motion
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