Event-driven architectures
From event-driven applications, there is only one minor step to event-driven architectures. Event-driven programming allows you to split your application into isolated components that communicate with each other only by exchanging events or signals. If you already did this, you should be also able to split your application into separate services that do the same, but transfer events to each other, either through some kind of inter-process communication (IPC) mechanism or over the network.
Event-driven architectures transfer the concept of event-driven programming to the level of inter-service communication. There are many good reasons for considering such architectures:
- Scalability and utilization of resources: If your workload can be split into many order-independent events, architectures that are event-driven allow the work to be easily distributed across many computing nodes (hosts). The amount of computing power can also be dynamically...
