Event-Driven Architecture
21 items from lutzh/awesome-event-driven-architecture ★580
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EDA in Practice: Building an eCommerce Platform at Cinch youtube.com
By Toli Apostolidis, September 2022. You can ignore the first 8 minutes and 15 seconds (in fact the link will skip them), they are mostly promotion for AWS. But from there on follows a good talk on real-world experiences with event-driven architecture.
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Core Decisions in Event-Driven Architecture youtube.com
By Duana Stanley, October 2019. Overall a great talk, definitely worth watching. Below are some minor issues I have with it.
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Event-Driven Architecture Explained in 15 Minutes youtube.com
By Dave Farley, July 2024. Watching videos by Dave Farley is always time well spent, and his short take on event-driven architecture is no exception.
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Event-Driven Architectures Done Right youtube.com
By Tim Berglund, May 2021. Good overview, clear presentation.
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Event Driven Architecture & Governance in Action youtube.com
By Wim Debreuck, June 2023. A talk that goes beyond the technical fundamentals, into the architecture and design process of event-driven applications. The shown approach might not be universal, but provides important insights. I especially like the clarity around business events.
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What is the Transactional Outbox Pattern? youtube.com
By Wade Waldron, February 2024. A short video (just over 5 minutes) explaining what the transactional outbox pattern is and how it works.
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Shifting Gears: From Events to Event-Driven youtube.com
By Ryan Cormack, May 2024. He tells the story of Motorway's journey to event driven, and also includes a lot of foundational aspects.
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Event Driven Architecture — 5 Pitfalls to Avoid medium.com
By Natan Silnitsky, August 2022. Especially when you only just get started, check this to spare you some frustration later. You might also want to check the "Further Reading" section at the end.
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Going “Events-First” for Microservices with Event Storming and DDD medium.com
By Russ Miles, October 2016. "It is not the things that matter in early stages of design - it is the things that happen."
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Introduction to Event-Driven Architecture medium.com
By Kacey Bui, February 2021. Good overview of the basics.
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Behind the scenes: McDonald's event-driven architecture medium.com
From the McDonald's tech blog, August 2022. Not very detailed, but an easily digestible case study about event-driven architecture at scale. Listing this here is not an endorsement of their products. There's a second part, too.
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5 pitfalls to avoid when implementing an Event-Driven Architecture medium.com
By Kris Van Vlaenderen, January 2024. Sounds very similar to the previous one. But it's not a case of duplicate events - it's actually 5 different pieces of advice.
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The Resurgence of Event Driven Architecture kimjulianclark.medium.com
By Kim Clark, May 2021. Historical context for the renewed interest in EDA. Provides a high-level view of Kafka vs. Queues, and unusually clear about runtime decoupling vs. request/response.
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Event-Driven Patterns for Cloud-Native Banking: Lessons from What Works and What Hurts infoq.com
By Chris Tacey-Green, March 2026. Based on production experience at Investec, the article covers both the benefits and the costs of running EDA in a regulated environment.
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Events As First-Class Citizens hackernoon.com
By Randy Shoup, January 2018. Focusses on the most important part of EDA: The actual events.
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Why Event-First Programming Changes Everything confluent.io
By Neil Avery, January 2019. Somewhat lengthy article that's great in painting the "big picture".
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Moving from orchestration to choreography blogit.michelin.io
By Olivier Jauze, March 2021. Michelin's journey from BPM orchestration to event-driven choreography. It's the first of a series and continues with part 2 and part 3.
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The different types of events in event-driven systems blog.frankdejonge.nl
By Frank de Jonge, February 2022. There are different approaches to classifying events - this is a very good one.
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Reliable event dispatching using a transactional outbox blog.frankdejonge.nl
By Frank de Jonge, February 2022. Transactional outbox is a crucial pattern for services basing their persistence on CRUD/RDBMS.
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Orchestration vs. Choreography ben-morris.com
By Ben Morris, December 2021. Every non-trivial system involves workflows that span multiple services. There are opposing schools of thought on how to handle this. Ben Morris gives a short, balanced introduction.
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Event Granularity: Modelling events in event driven applications barryosull.com
By Barry O'Sullivan, December 2017. About finding the right granularity for events.
