One of the broader trends across Enterprise Businesses is the need for customization. Existing business tools, traditionally grouped into categories such as Excel-like spreadsheets, point solutions, or Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) tools, do not have the flexibility to be tailored to exactly meet a manufacturer's specific needs.
Nearly every business software comes equipped with an Application Programming Interface (API) that enables seamless communication with existing systems. This technological leap has paved the way for the emergence of event-driven architectures, such as Kafka, that are particularly prominent in industries like manufacturing to enhance reliability and mitigate the risk of system failures during outages. However, this proliferation of diverse solutions requires an orchestrating tool - an operating system - that synchronizes and integrates the...
