How we build things is just as important as what we build. These articles let our engineers explain the “why” of what we do, and how we put the “tech” in “FinTech”.
This post was first published in aivarsk.com Cal Paterson wrote a great article comparing and describing synchronous and asynchronous Python frameworks and explaining why asynchronous frameworks go a bit wobbly under load. This is a story of how we experienced wobbliness in a recent project. We are using FastAPI, Pydantic, and...
The ‘Request For Comment’ (RFC) process is often used in large open source projects to coordinate discussion, record requirements and document design decisions. It is a process by which all contributors record suggestions, comments and discussions focussed around a technical proposal. The merit of the original proposal is debated, alternatives...
This post was first published in aivarsk.com The code I am working with uses Confluent Kafka Python library that calls librdkafka C++ library underneath. The code does synchronous messaging: it produces events one-by-one and ensures event is persisted in Kafka topic by waiting for acknowledgments from all replicas. This code is sensitive to latency...
As Ebury fully embraces new architectures supporting our business growth, we’ve selected Kafka to be a backbone of system integrations. Here you will find 4 cases where it has been implemented successfully: 1 – Data Migration (a.k.a. Database Consolidation Service) Ebury has one system that has been leased to a...
In order to move value around the world reliably and securely for our clients, Ebury is a financial institution connected to the SWIFT network, the world’s leading provider of financial messaging services. More than 10.000 financial institutions are currently connected to the network, enabling international funds transfer across more than...
When looking up information on how to migrate from Bitbucket to GitHub, it is easy to find a lot of information about how to clone one repository from Bitbucket to GitHub or how to prepare a specific pipeline to replicate the changes, but… what happens when you want to migrate...
