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Ralph Matthias Debusmann

Ralph is a former AI/NLP researcher turned software engineer, solution architect and technologist, now acting as the Lead Enterprise Kafka Engineer at Migros-Genossenschafts-Bund in Zuerich, Switzerland. He has received his PhD in computer science focusing on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence in 2006 (Saarbruecken University and University of Edinburgh) and has spent 15 years at SAP, Bosch and Forecasty.AI/BASF SE before joining Migros-Genossenschafts-Bund in 2023.


Company/Organisation:

Migros-Genossenschafts-Bund


Session

06-09
10:00
40min
Kafi Streams: Complex Stream Processing Made Simple
Ralph Matthias Debusmann

You can finally stop caring about co-partitioning, state stores and eventual consistency. Kafi Streams, built on (Py)DBSP, treats streaming like batch — strongly consistent, no special concepts. An Open Source Python library for the 80% of use cases that don't need extreme scale. Fully incremental stream processing for everyone, from day one.

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