Explore techniques for leveraging distributed commit log systems like Apache Kafka and Amazon Kinesis in a 40-minute conference talk from Strange Loop. Delve into practical approaches for building robust, real-time transaction processing systems. Learn how to address challenges such as duplicate event delivery, shard management, poison events, exception handling, worker failure detection, rapid failover, and debugging. Gain insights into expanding the use of distributed commit logs beyond click-stream analysis to power efficient transaction processing applications.