Streaming Architecture in Practice: Real-Time Fraud Detection
This event is free to attend
Free registration is required to attend this event
📅 Date: November 18, 2025, 7:30 PM
📍 Organizer: DEV.BG – Software Architecture User Group
🎙️ Speaker: Monika Hristova, Lead Architect @ DraftKings
🤝 Supported by: DraftKings, Delasport, and myPOS
⚙️ About the Event:
How do you design and scale streaming-first architectures that power real-time decisions?
In this session, Monika Hristova, Lead Architect at DraftKings, will walk us through how her team builds and operates event-driven and streaming systems that enable real-time fraud detection, personalization, and critical business analytics.
You’ll explore a real-world production case and uncover architectural insights around domain events, unified data pipelines, and “data-as-a-platform” thinking – all crucial for modern large-scale systems.
🔎 Agenda:
👉 How DraftKings designs Event-Driven and Streaming Architectures
👉 Real-world example: Real-Time Fraud Detection in production
👉 Architectural lessons: domain events, unified pipelines, data as a platform
👉 Streaming-first mindset: designing domain events with business value
👉 Q&A session
🎙️ About the Speaker:
Monika Hristova is a Lead Architect at DraftKings, specializing in real-time data and streaming architectures that drive core business decisions.
She has led cross-functional initiatives connecting engineering, data, and machine learning teams, building event-driven ecosystems with technologies like Apache Spark, Flink, and Databricks.
Monika’s passion lies in designing technically robust yet business-impactful architectures that enable faster experimentation and measurable results.
🎟️ Registration:
The event is free, but pre-registration is required:
👉 Register here
👨💻 User Group:
Part of the Software Architecture community by DEV.BG, organizing monthly sessions on large-scale system design, best practices, and emerging patterns.
🔵 Organized by:
DEV.BG – Bulgaria’s leading IT job board.
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