Advanced Platform Development with Kubernetes: Enabling Data Management, the Internet of Things, Blockchain, and Machine Learning

© Craig Johnston 2020

C. JohnstonAdvanced Platform Development with Kuberneteshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5611-4_5

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Craig Johnston¹ 

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Los Angeles, CA, USA

 

All software platforms operate by communicating data in one form or another. Data-driven services use data to determine flow (or logic), while event-driven services listen for events to execute predetermined flow and logic. In ether sense, these services are communicating data, and the transmission of data itself is an event. Data-driven vs. event-driven architectures typically boil down to the meaning and value of the data they handle, and how the data is acted on, transformed, processed, or analyzed by services consuming it.

The applications that manage data are often central ...