Event-Driven Architecture in Golang

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Introduction to Event-Driven Architectures

Event-driven architecture (EDA) is the foundational design of an application’s communication of state changes around an asynchronous exchange of messages called events. The architecture allows applications to be developed as a highly distributed and loosely coupled organization of components. Probably predominantly, the most well-known arrangement of components today is the microservices architecture for applications.

Our world is made up of events—they’re happening everywhere around us. A simple act of waking up in the morning becomes an event the instant it occurs. The same goes for the act of purchasing a book. Whether or not it was recorded that way in some database, somewhere, it was considered ...