Why Event Streaming Matters for Your Enterprise Blockchain Solution
How to subscribe to events at scale with PegaSys Plus
PegaSys Plus, launched October 22, is our commercially-licensed Ethereum platform designed for enterprises that want to accelerate their blockchain solution to production quickly. In the previous posts in this series, we’ve talked about PegaSys Plus’ increased security features using blockchain database encryption and how PegaSys Plus ensures uptime with advanced monitoring. In this post, Product Manager Tim Beiko dives into another one of PegaSys Plus’ enterprise-focused features: event streaming to Apache Kafka and Amazon Kinesis.
By Tim Beiko
If you are running a production application on Ethereum, you will likely be subscribing to various events on the blockchain in order to monitor what’s happening. Whether that’s checking for a new block, validating that a transaction made it in the transaction pool, or simply monitoring whether your nodes are synced to the network, updating your application to reflect the latest network state is critical.
While this functionality is available on Hyperledger Besu via our websockets API, enterprise users often require something more reliable that can work at scale without ever dropping a message. PegaSys Plus now offers a solution for this: event streaming to Kafka and Kinesis.
Why Event Streaming Matters for your Enterprise
Enterprises have a large number of data creating systems that need to talk to one another. When running a blockchain application, almost all of them need to be aware of what is happening on-chain. Rather than connecting each of these systems to your blockchain client directly, event streaming allows you…
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