Real-Time and Event-Driven Banking at Rabobank
Read how Rabobank became an event-driven bank and scaled Kafka across 150+ DevOps teams.
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Rabobank is a Dutch multinational banking and financial services company headquartered in Utrecht, Netherlands. Rabobank is active in forty countries worldwide, has over 43,000 employees, and serves approximately 10 million customers. Compelling Event Rabobank decided to move towards 100% digital and become a real-time, event-driven bank from batch jobs to real-time. They chose Apache Kafka as the engine for their event streaming platform but quickly discovered that Kafka was costly to maintain and needed a number of features to scale across the enterprise while guarding governance and security.
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A Real-Time Bank Transfer is an instant payment system that allows funds to be transferred between bank accounts immediately or within seconds. Unlike traditional bank transfers, which can take hours or days to process, real-time bank transfers offer near-instantaneous movement of funds, making it possible to complete transactions 24/7, including on weekends and holidays. Key features of real-time bank transfers include: Speed: Transactions are processed in real-time, typically within seconds. Availability: The service is available around the clock, unlike traditional banking hours. Irrevocability: Once the transfer is initiated, it cannot be reversed or canceled. Immediate Access: The recipient has instant access to the funds once the transaction is complete.
Event-driven refers to a software architecture or programming paradigm in which the flow of the program is determined by events—such as user actions (like clicks or key presses), sensor outputs, or messages from other programs or systems. In this model, the system responds to events as they occur, allowing for a more dynamic and responsive interaction.
Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) is a software design pattern that focuses on the production, detection, consumption, and reaction to events. In this architecture, system components communicate and interact through events, which are significant changes in state or occurrences that trigger specific actions.
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