Opportunities and Pitfalls of Event-driven Utopia
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The talk explains event-driven architectures, covering technologies like event streaming and event sourcing along with domain events and event buses. It outlines benefits—decoupling, scalability, real-time data handling and better modeling of business requirements—and warns of pitfalls such as inappropriate event-notifications causing tight coupling or cycles, loss of visibility across service boundaries, lack of tooling to trace event flows, and adoption challenges among developers and analysts.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Event-driven architectures
- 3:17Traditional vs modern architectures
- 7:30Event Sourcing basics
- 17:02Event Sourcing example
- 26:34CAP Theorem trade-offs
- 33:12Events inside vs outside
- 37:27Event communication patterns
- 49:52Event chains complexity
- 59:41Orchestration vs choreography
- 1:01:06Conclusion
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