Talks

I enjoy sharing what I know: talking about my projects, passing on the wins as well as the mistakes. A selection of the publicly available slides of my talks.

2024
Real-time data: data hubs for public-transport customer information
Data hubs for real-time messages in public transport and the architecture of the operations cockpit on AWS, Snowflake and Kafka.
jug.ch
2021
Kafka Connect: Integration, Automation, and Monitoring in Streaming Architectures
Zero-code integration of existing applications with Kafka Connect – multi-tenancy, automated connector management and custom monitoring at SBB.
Messaging & Streaming Meetup
2018
Event-based architecture with Apache Kafka
From a 25-year-old mainframe to an event-driven architecture: moving SBB cargo systems from batch to streaming with Apache Kafka.
jug.ch
2016
Hazelcast at SBB – “Honey, I shrunk the response times”
How SBB uses Hazelcast as a distributed in-memory grid to cache volatile operational data and cut response times dramatically.
jug.ch
2013
ZPS after 16 sprints
A look back at 16 sprints building the new public-transport pricing system – bitemporal data, offline capability and a team split between Bern and St. Petersburg.
SBB Devday
Future pricing system (ZPS) @ ETH Juniors
How the future public-transport pricing system computes a fare: from connection search through tariff networks to price calculation.
ETH Juniors
2012
Arquillian
In-container integration testing with Arquillian and ShrinkWrap – lessons from the ZPS project.
SBB Devday

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