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Confluent
CitigroupConfluent at Citigroup: Event Streams
Citigroup, a financials organization in the United States, uses Connect from Confluent to support real-time operations for platform engineers.
Value results
| Category | Value result |
|---|---|
| Productivity | Fewer stalled items because event streams has a clear owner |
| Productivity | Handoffs in real-time operations sit in a shared queue instead of a mailbox trail |
| Capability | New joiners can see how real-time operations actually runs |
Story
Citigroup did not need another dashboard that nobody opened. It needed real-time operations to move. In the United States, platform engineers already knew where event streams went wrong: too many copies, too little ownership, and a close process that waited on the loudest inbox.
Connect from Confluent is now in that path. Confluent is the data streaming platform built around Apache Kafka, used to move events between applications in real time. The company treats it as production tooling for real-time operations, which is why platform engineers live in it rather than exporting from it once a quarter.
Citigroup can show how event streams is handled today. That is the value: a repeatable way to run real-time operations on software the rest of the industry already recognizes.
