If you’re a human being (or meerkat, chimpanzee, bee, etc.) reading this, then you know that we tend to thrive best by collaborating in a community/system, not in isolation.
Similarly, in software development a single service is not terribly useful by itself—services come in systems, and become useful only when they can collaborate as systems. As soon as they start collaborating, we need ways to coordinate events and commands across a distributed system using a network that is inherently unreliable!
In this talk by Jonas Bonér, Lightbend CTO/Co-Founder and creator of Akka, we will explore the nature of events, what it means to be event-driven, and how we can unleash the power of events and commands by applying an events first, domain-driven design to microservices-based architectures. Specifically, we will discuss:
If you're looking to learn more about this topic, then download this free O'Reilly book Reactive Microsystems: The Evolution of Microservices at Scale. Inside, you'll see strategies and techniques for building scalable and resilient microservices, helping you work your way through the evolution of a scalable microservices-based system.
