Ben Stopford
Ben Stopford is a specialist in data technologies. He’s worked in Finance, at Thoughtworks and is now at Confluent. His experience cover a variety of fields including online trading, retail, High Performance Computing and building the central data platform for a large investment bank. He writes at http://benstopford.com.
Talks I've Given
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5 Reasons to use Kafka In the Cloud
Featuring Ben Stopford
Kafka comes with some unique tools for managing data, services and scale. In this talk Ben will share with you five of the most important elements that make Kafka perfect for cloud based applications. You will learn how to get to applications into the cloud, managing data across geographically...
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Microservices, The Data Dichotomy: Rethinking Data & Services with Streams
Featuring Ben Stopford
When we build Mircroservices we generally don't think too much about data. We focus on clean abstractions and singular responsibilities. But data systems are built to make data as accessible as possible, something that sits starkly in contrast to the encapsulated abstractions most services...
functional microservices clean-code computer-programming programming-languages angular open-source