Reactive Systems: Architecting with Events
The Power of Events: Why Your Tech Stack Needs Event-Driven Architecture Modern software development is about speed, responsiveness, and scalability. Traditional architectures, often based on request-response models, struggle to keep up with these demands. Enter event-driven architecture (EDA), a paradigm shift that unleashes the power of asynchronous communication and real-time data processing. Think of EDA as a bustling marketplace where systems interact through events – snippets of information that signify something interesting happening. When a new order is placed, an "order created" event is published. Different systems, like inventory management, payment gateways, and shipping services, subscribe to this specific event. Upon receiving the message, they autonomously take action: updating stock levels, processing payments, or scheduling deliveries. This decentralized approach brings...