The primary benefit of this solution is that it establishes an anti-corruption layer between the systems because only the External Service Gateway components are coupled to their respective external systems. Upstream components are not required to produce events that can be consumed by the external systems. The gateway components are responsible for this transformation. For inbound communication, the raw version of the event is included, solely so that it can be captured by the data lake, whereas the transformed version of the event is provided for consumption by downstream components. This enables the possibility of replacing an external system with another external system as needed or even supporting multiple external ...
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