Distributed Serverless Architectures on AWS: Design and Implement Serverless Architectures

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J. J. PaulDistributed Serverless Architectures on AWShttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9159-7_3

3. Event-Driven Architectures

Jithin Jude Paul¹  

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Ernakulam, Kerala, India

 

In the previous chapters, you learned about serverless and distributed systems using AWS. Most of these systems included events in one form or another. Event-driven architectures, on the other hand, work based on the state changes or, rather, events. In this chapter, we’ll cover the following:

• What event-driven architectures are

• Common event-driven architectures

• Different use cases for event-driven architectures

What Are Event-Driven Architectures?

An event can be described as a change in ...