Data Mesh in Practice: Kafka for 50+ Teams with FlixBus
Lessons learned at Flixbus from building and maintaining a distributed self-service streaming platform
Speakers
Join us to hear from Taras Slipets, Staff Data Engineer at FlixBus, about the lessons learned from building and maintaining a distributed self-service streaming platform over the last 4 years.
Flixbus are leaders in the global green passenger mobility market, servicing more than 400,000 daily connections. Real-time data is critical for decision making in this dynamic environment, facilitating fleet tracking, route optimization, delivering precise arrival times and leveraging ML/AI to optimize the customer experience.
What We'll Cover
- Kafka usage at FlixBus
- Data mesh core principles
- Naming conventions for domain-oriented ownership
- Kafka's prefixed ACL pattern type
- Lessons learned from enabling 10 domains and 50 internal teams
- Self-service for resource management (architecture, CI/CD, permissions workflow)
We'll also take a look at how Conduktor is committed to providing a scalable, vendor-agnostic solution for self-service on Kafka, facilitating collaboration between Platform Teams and Application Teams.