How to integrate event-driven microservices with request-response APIs?
There are two types of external events:
Autonomously Generated Events (analytical events) Reactively Generated Events (events from request-reply) There are two approaches of processing and serving requests using stateful services:
using internal state stores (with silly or with smart routing) using external state stores (with regular or with composite microservice) Ways of handling requests within an event-driven workflow:
The book club of our company has chosen a new wonderful book for reading:
Robert Martin - Clean Architecture - a Craftsman’s Guide to Software Structure and Design
👍
The part VI undermines some foundations 😀:
Do you know that Database is a “detail”? An unimportant minor low-level non-essential feature that can be neglected in architecture design! Do you know the same about the Web? It is just an unimportant IO device that should also be neglected in architecture design!
Earlier this year the book club of our company has studied excellent book:
Martin Kleppmann - Designing Data-Intensive Applications
This is the best book I have read about building complex scalable software systems. 💪
As usually (to better learn) I prepared an overview and mind-map.
Chapter 1:
Building blocks of the apps What is Reliability, Scalability and Maintainability. Examples and definitions. Faults and Failures Performance, Load, Latency and Response Time Operability, Simplicity, Evolvability Why you should randomly kill your servers 😅 How Twitter delivers 12,000 tweets per second to 300,000 readers per second.
