How to drive an Event-driven Architecture for microservices

Event-driven Architecture logoAn Event-driven architecture (EDA) could be a candidate to realize a communication-basis between microservices and an approach to get the services mostly decoupled. The architectural pattern exist for a couple of years and has been described in papers and articles like [1,2,3].
However in this and the following post I won’t repeat the theory in detail, I’d rather like to describe how to sketch an EDA based system and just sometimes use quotations of the papers above – like [1]:

An event is a notable thing that happens inside or outside your business.

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A coffee with Kafka

A few months ago I got in touch with Kafka – the message broker Apache Kafka rather than Franz Kafka the novelist.
Apache Kafka is simply a message broker which claims to be:

  • Fast – Hundreds of MB r/w per second from thousands of clients
  • Scalable
  • Central data backbone – Data streams are partitioned and spread over a cluster of machines
  • Durable – Messages are persisted on disk and replicated within the cluster
  • Fault-tolerance – Cluster-centric design

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