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#55 Apache Kafka - Like Functional Programming but for Data (With Anna McDonald)

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Kafka Streams: A Comfortable Platform for Fraud Investigations

Kafka was made to handle such a volume being developed at LinkedIn, right? It's all those interactions on a website is uniquely suited to do that. Fraud use cases are kind of bread and butter for us. One of my customers is the CDC, the Center for Disease Control. And because you can stream it in so fast, once it gets there, you can do those transformations with something like Kafka Streams very easily. But here's one of the really cool things with Kafka is that in a traditional like message streaming system, you think about things as given consumers.

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