Banking on Streams ebook

Banking on Streams explores how to design banking-grade systems with Apache Kafka at the core. It focuses on using event-driven architecture to build financial platforms that are reliable, scalable, resilient, auditable, and capable of processing transactions in real time. The book covers practical architectural concepts for modeling banking operations as events, designing reliable event streams, maintaining data consistency and transaction accuracy, handling failures and recovery, integrating modern event-driven platforms with existing banking infrastructure, and building systems that can scale under demanding workloads. It also addresses key concerns of financial systems, including security, compliance, observability, durable event processing, fault tolerance, and the operational challenges of running Kafka-based banking platforms in production.