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The term “Event” is really overloaded. There are many different utilities that leverage events. Event Sourcing, Event Carried State Transfer, and Event Notifications. None of these are for the same purpose. When talking about an Event Based architecture, realize which one you’re using and for what purpose. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel where I post all kinds of content that accompanies my posts including this video showing everything that is in this post. Overloaded With the popularity of Microservices, Event Driven Architecture, Event Sourcing, and tooling, the term “Events” has become pretty overloaded and I find has been causing some confusion.… Read More »Event Based Architecture: What do you mean by EVENT?

In a message-driven architecture such as SOA or Microservices, organizing commands and events, along with their respected handlers, can have a big impact on have you navigate your codebase. You might be surprised by the progression of how I organized them initially to what I do now! Also a tip on how to name commands and Events instead of after CRUD. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel where I post all kinds of content that accompanies my posts including this video showing everything that is in this post. Building Blocks When moving into a message-driven system, you’re likely going to fall down… Read More »Organizing (Commands, Events & Handlers) in Microservices

Are you using REST APIs for a Microservices architecture? If you’re using REST, HTTP APIs, gRPC, or any other Request/Response model as the primary way to communicate between microservices, you’re going to need to deal with possibly hard to debug latency issues and address availability concerns. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel where I post all kinds of content that accompanies my posts including this video showing everything that is in this post. In-Process Single Transaction First, let’s take a step back and talk about a monolith. When in a monolith, you’d typically have a single process communicating with your database. If… Read More »REST APIs for Microservices? Beware!