Real-Time Payments with Clojure and Apache Kafka ft. Bobby Calderwood

Streamlining banking technology to help smaller banks and credit unions thrive among financial giants is top of mind for Bobby Calderwood (Founder, Evident Systems), who started out in programming, transitioned to banking, and recently launched Evident Real-Time Payments. Payments leverages Confluent Cloud to help banks of all sizes transform to real-time banking services from traditionally batch-oriented, bankers’ hours operational mode. This is achieved through Apache Kafka® and the Kafka Streams and Kafka Connect APIs with Clojure using functional programming paradigms like transducers. Bobby also shares about his efforts to help financial services companies build their next-generation platforms on top of streaming events, including interesting use cases, addressing hard problems that come up in payments, and identifying solutions that make event streaming technology easy to use within established banking structures. EPISODE LINKSToward a Functional Programming Analogy for MicroservicesEvent Modeling: Designing Modern Information SystemsFinovate Fall/Evident SystemsThe REPL Podcast: 30: Bobby Calderwood on Kafka and FintechClojure TransducersRich Hickey’s TwitterDavid Nolen's TwitterStuart Halloway’s TwitterChris Redinger’s TwitterTim Ewald’s LinkedInJoin the Confluent Community SlackFully managed Apache Kafka as a service! Try free.SEASON 2 Hosted by Tim Berglund, Adi Polak and Viktor Gamov Produced and Edited by Noelle Gallagher, Peter Furia and Nurie Mohamed Music by Coastal Kites Artwork by Phil Vo  🎧 Subscribe to Confluent Developer wherever you listen to podcasts. ▶️ Subscribe on YouTube, and hit the 🔔 to catch new episodes.👍 If you enjoyed this, please leave us a rating. 🎧 Confluent also has a podcast for tech leaders: "Life Is But A Stream" hosted by our friend, Joseph Morais.