Robust Python

Chapter 18. Event-Driven Architecture

Extensibility is important at every level of your codebase. At the code level, you employ extensibility to make your functions and classes flexible. At the abstract level, you utilize the same principles in your codebase’s architecture. Architecture is the set of high-level guidelines and constraints that shape how you design software. It is the vision that influences all developers, past, present, and future. This chapter, as well as the next one, are going to show two examples of how architectural examples improve maintability. Everything you’ve learned so far in this part of the book applies: good architecture promotes extensibility, manages dependencies well, and fosters composability.

In this chapter, you will learn about event-driven architecture. Event-driven architecture revolves around events, or notifications in your system. It is a fantastic way to decouple different parts of your codebase, as well as extend your system for new functionality or performance. Event-driven architectures allow you to introduce new changes easily with minimal impact. First, I want to talk about the flexibility that event-driven architectures provide. Then, I’ll cover two separate variations of event-driven architectures: simple events and streaming events. While they are similar, you will use them in slightly different scenarios.

How It Works

When you focus on event-driven architectures, you are revolving around reactions to stimuli. You deal ...