Building Event-Driven Microservices

Preface

I wrote this book to be the book that I wish I’d 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, ...