Events

Overviewing basics of event processing in Event-Driven Architectures: Typical structure of microservice Typical types of event transformations, 2 branching scenarios, merging streams Repartitioning events and when it can be useful Copartitioning events and when it is needed Assigning Partitions to a Consumer Instance. Three strategies to do this. Recovering from stateless processing instance failures. These topics are disclosed in the Chapter 5 of the book we are currently studying:

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.