Event-Driven Architectures with Apache Kafka

"Event-driven" is a programming paradigm in which services create events and react to events instead of responding to requests. Event-driven architectures are an alternative to the more familiar web-based request/response microservice architectures and aim to solve some of the problems we encounter with request/response patterns. In this talk we will be talking about the characteristics of event-driven architectures, how they differ from request/response HTTP based architectures, and their advantages and disadvantages. In addition we will look at the Kafka streaming platform as the backbone for event-driven architectures - what capabilities it brings to the table and what issues it might introduce.