Switching to Protobuf (from Avro) on Kafka
Clear Street is a fintech building modern infrastructure for capital markets and reimagining the legacy workflows and silos that are essential to increasing access in the financial markets, all while transparently decreasing risks and costs.
Our platform is built on a modern foundation designed around Kafka and tightly integrated into the AWS cloud, giving us horizontal and vertical scalability. Our architecture lets us easily decompose complex finance business logic into manageable chunks, or microservices, and Kafka’s democratization of data access and data flows make it easy for us to create an event-sourced architecture.
However, we’ve learned along the way that even modern technology, like Kafka, sometimes needs a new approach and that the most common approaches aren’t always the most effective. This is why we decided to move from Avro to Protobuf on Kafka.
Keep reading on our blog:
https://www.clearstreet.io/insights/switching-to-protobuf-from-avro-on-kafka
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