The Awakening of the New Event-Driven (Beast)

Abstract

Developers have long employed message queues to decouple subsystems and provide an approximation of asynchronous processing. However, these queuing systems don’t adequately deliver on the promise of event-driven architectures and often lead to the usage anti-patterns. The events are carrying both notification and state. This allows for developers and data engineers to event-driven systems. Developers benefit from the asynchronous communication that events enable between services, and data engineers benefit from the integration capabilities. In this talk, Viktor will discuss the concepts of events, their relevance to software and data engineers, as well as its power for effectively unifying architectures. You learn how stream processing makes sense in microservices and data integration projects. The talk concludes with a hands-on demonstration of these concepts in practice, using modern toolchain – Kotlin, Spring Boot and Apache Kafka!