Building Event-Driven Microservices, 2nd Edition

Preface

I first wrote this book to be the one that I wish I’d had when I started out on my journey into the world of event-driven microservices. While I wrote much of it based on my own experiences, I was very fortunate to learn and grow alongside many great colleagues and mentors. I’ve done my best to distill everything I know about event-driven microservices into this book, and I hope that it serves you well on your own journey.

In the five intervening years between this second edition and the first, I’ve had the opportunity to live and experience an even wider and more detailed world of event-driven architectures and microservices. As a Principal Technologist at Confluent, I’ve been privileged to engage with countless amazing organizations doing some really remarkable things—some as our customers, and some as members of the vibrant Apache Kafka community.

While many factors have influenced this second edition, two stand above the rest. The first is the content that I wish I had put in for the first edition, including detailed examinations of schemas, event design, orchestration, and eventual consistency. Though primarily theoretical in nature, these subjects prove to be essential for building well-designed event-driven microservices.

The second major influencing factor is that of dominant technology trends. It is far easier today than it has ever been to get started building event-driven microservices. Many things have changed since the first edition of this book, including: ...