WEBINAR REPLAY
| Audience: Architects, Developers
| Technical level: Introductory
How Credit Karma Makes Real-Time Decisions for 60 Million Users with Akka Streams and Apache Kafka
With Dustin Lyons, Engineering Manager at Credit Karma
Dustin Lyons heads data services for Credit Karma. He was challenged by a common dilemma many financial services architects and engineering leaders face: how to move from batch to streaming data. With over 60 million members, Credit Karma, one of the top financial apps across Android and iOS, handles tens of millions of Americans’ credit information.
In this webinar, discover how Dustin faced his challenges and succeeded in helping Credit Karma to implement Akka Streams with Apache Kafka to ingest, process and route real-time events throughout their data ecosystem.
At the end of the hour, followed by a Q&A session facilitated by Karl Wehden, Director of Product Management at Lightbend, you will:
- Understand design considerations for new fast data architectures
- Learn lessons for progressing from batch to streaming using Kafka, Spark, and Akka
- Recognize why resilience becomes a first-class citizen when delivering real-time customer experiences

WEBINAR REPLAY
How Credit Karma Makes Real-Time Decisions for 60 Million Users with Akka Streams and Apache Kafka
With Dustin Lyons, Engineering Manager at Credit Karma and Karl Wehden, Director of Product Management at Lightbend, Inc.
Audience: Architects, Developers
Technical level: Introductory
Dustin Lyons heads data services for Credit Karma. He was challenged by a common dilemma many financial services architects and engineering leaders face: how to move from batch to streaming data. With over 60 million members, Credit Karma, one of the top financial apps across Android and iOS, handles tens of millions of Americans’ credit information.
In this webinar, discover how Dustin faced his challenges and succeeded in helping Credit Karma to implement Akka Streams with Apache Kafka to ingest, process and route real-time events throughout their data ecosystem.
At the end of the hour, followed by a Q&A session facilitated by Karl Wehden, Director of Product Management at Lightbend, you will:
- Understand design considerations for new fast data architectures
- Learn lessons for progressing from batch to streaming using Kafka, Spark, and Akka
- Recognize why resilience becomes a first-class citizen when delivering real-time customer experiences

