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BigDataLab: Big Data Architecture & Distributed Systems Crisis

A Colombian fintech simulation where teams redesign PagaRápido's monolithic transaction platform under SFC pressure — covering CQRS, event streaming, data skew, lakehouse governance, SARLAFT pipelines and operational resilience (RTO/RPO) in 4 rounds.

4 rounds Executive English, Español

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Who it is for

An advanced simulation for participants used to working with the main frameworks and trade-offs of the subject, designed for executive education and experienced professionals.

How a session runs

  1. The instructor creates a session from the Eureka dashboard and invites the participants.
  2. Participants play 4 rounds. In each one they submit their decisions and the simulation calculates the results.
  3. The simulation can be run in English, Español.
  4. The instructor follows each participant's progress and results from the dashboard, and uses the class results for the debrief.

Decisions participants make

The decisions participants make during the simulation:

  • Primary Bottleneck Diagnosis
  • Scaling Approach
  • TPS Gap to Close (current 55, SFC target 1,260)
  • Transaction Write Datastore
  • Event Streaming Platform
  • Analytical Data Warehouse
  • Data Lake Catalog
  • Spark Partitioning Strategy
  • SARLAFT Pipeline Redesign
  • RTO Commitment (minutes)

What participants track

What participants follow on screen as the rounds go by:

  • Your Architectural Decisions
  • Round Outcomes

Subjects covered

Designed for courses in Information Systems.

  • Big Data Technologies (Hadoop, Spark)

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