Software Architect's Handbook

Simple event processing (SEP)

In SEP, notable events are immediately routed in order to initiate some type of downstream action. This type of processing can be used for real-time workflows to reduce the amount of time between the event taking place and the resulting action.

Simple event processing also includes functionality such as transforming event schemas from one form to another, generating multiple events based on the payload of a single event, and supplementing an event payload with additional data.