From microservice architectures to serverless functions, the development of complex Cloud systems always starts with a good architectural design, often embracing the streaming computational model to meet real-time requirements. Given the transition from “Big Data” to "Fast Data", this talk presents how Bottega52 introduced Apache Kafka into its software stack, discussing a successful industrial case: a tracking system based on "digital watermarks", commissioned by an Italian multinational food company. In particular, it presents the evolution of the system, born as a small “monolith" and evolved into a Lambda architecture composed of multiple microservices, with improved reliability and efficiency, implementing the "Command Query Responsibility Segregation" pattern.

The NECSTLab is a DEIB laboratory, with different research lines on advanced topics in computing systems: from architectural characteristics, to hardware-software codesign methodologies, to security and dependability issues of complex system architectures. 

Every week, the "NECST Friday Talk" invites researchers, professionals or entrepreneurs to share their work experiences and projects they are implementing in the "Computing Systems".