EDM

The Event-Driven model heavily relies on the QUALITY of events. Good quality events are: explicitly defined via contracts have comments support evolution with backward and forward compatibility support code generation breaking changes are well thought Good events are implemented using the right tools: use Avro/Thrift/Protobuf formats and never use JSON! use the right event broker (such as Pulsar) Good events are designed to: contain all the info needed by consumers use separate streams for each event type use the right data types for their fields (don’t use string for numbers, use enums, etc.

Our company’s books club has selected a book about Microservices. It is “Building Event-Driven Microservices: Leveraging Organizational Data at Scale” by Adam Bellemare Chapter 1 contains intro info: Types of architectures and differences between them: Traditional monolith-style architectures Service-oriented architectures (SOAs) Event-driven microservice (EDM) architectures Levels of Communication Structures and related Conway’s Law: business implementation data Problems with traditional architectures (monolith & SOA) when you need to: