Fran Méndez is author of this piece about Event Driven Architecture (EDA). He explores similarities between Representational State Transfer) (REST) and EDA. It worth noting that REST APIs are still the dominant application integration paradigm today.
REST’s popularity arose out of the need for data exchange and interactions between the web browser and backend services. In that context it became a de facto standard because it integrated so well with JavaScript and was so much easier than Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP).
The article then examines how:
- Event Driven is following in REST’s footsteps
- Foundational Components, including
- Event brokers
- Development frameworks
- Security
- Enablement Tooling, including
- Event management
- Runtime event discovery
- API description specification
- Code generation tools
EDA’s popularity has started to drastically increase as many companies are realizing they MUST react in real-time to their customers, decouple their systems and transform into event-driven organizations. Learn to know more!
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