Monolith to Event-Driven Microservices with Apache Kafka
Event-Driven Architecture refer to rather old concept of Software Engineering that gained a lot of relevancy recently due to the need for innovation in enterprise system integration, especially when talking about ever-growing complexity in microservice setups.
We will be designing an Evolutionary Event-Driven system based on a classical legacy application, similar to what can be found in many organisations all around the world. This exercise will show us the potential of Event-Driven Architectures.
But first, let’s talk about what Event-Driven Systems are, and why are they crucial for the future of Software Engineering.
The fastest distributed systems in the world are Event-Driven. — Dave Farley, co-author of Reactive Manifesto
Event-Driven Systems are Reactive
The Reactive Manifesto addresses problems with legacy by laying out the philosophies of modern web-native software development.
We want systems that are Responsive, Resilient, Elastic and Message Driven. We call these Reactive Systems.
An important quality of such systems is loose coupling — concept that empowers software components of a…
