Thousands of companies globally build their businesses on top of Apache Kafka® – a community distributed event streaming platform capable of handling trillions of events a day. Kafka has quickly evolved from a messaging queue to a full-fledged event streaming platform, and at VirtusLab we also take advantage of its capabilities.

Below article describes the solution architecture we created for risk detection that provides results in real-time and at scale. Together with ksqlDB, features in the Kafka Streams framework help engineers to focus on delivering real business value.