Adam Bellemare - Building Event-Driven Microservices

by Adam Bellemare

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I wrote this book to be the book that I wish Id had when I started out on my journey into the world of event-driven microservices. This book is a culmination of my own personal experiences, discussions with others, and the countless blogs, books, posts, talks, conferences, and documentation related to one part or another of the event-driven microservice world. I found that many of the works I read mentioned event-driven architectures either only in passing or with insufficient depth. Some covered only a specific aspect of the architecture and, while helpful, provided only a small piece of the puzzle. Other works proved to be reductive and dismissive, asserting that event-driven systems are really only useful for one system to send an asynchronous message directly to another as a replacement for synchronous request-response systems. As this book details, there is far more to event-driven architectures than this.

The tools that we use shape and influence our inventions significantly. Event-driven microservice architectures are made possible by a whole host of technologies that have only recently become readily accessible. Distributed, fault-tolerant, high-capacity, and high-speed event brokers underpin the architectures and design patterns in this book. These technological solutions are based on the convergence of big data with the need for near-real-time event processing. Microservices are facilitated by the ease of containerization and the requisitioning of compute resources, allowing for simplified hosting, scaling, and management of hundreds of thousands of microservices.

The technologies that support event-driven microservices have a significant impact on how we think about and solve problems, as well as on how our businesses and organizations are structured. Event-driven microservices change how a business works, how problems can be solved, and how teams, people, and business units communicate. These tools give you a truly new way of doing things that has not been possible until only recently.