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Event Driven Architecture: Theories, Patterns and Best Practices Training

An event-driven architecture uses events to communicate and coordinate between decoupled services. Applications built using event-driven principles can be highly scalable, resilient, and extensible - essential for large modern applications. These architectures also align with and take advantage of the capabilities of modern cloud providers. This training teaches attendees how to understand and apply event-driven architectures.
Course Details

Duration

2 days

Prerequisites

This course is aimed at solution architects, software engineers, and developers. Students should have a general of application architecture or design. Prior experience with RESTful APIs, messaging, or development using asynchronous/multithreaded applications is useful but not required. The course is technology-neutral and does not assume knowledge of any particular development technology. Workshops are paper exercises and do not involve coding.

Skills Gained

  • Understand the relationship between microservices and event-driven architectures
  • Work with event types and the event structures that support them
  • Manage schema dependency concerns
  • Understand streaming services in event-driven architectures
  • Solve issues with workflows and long-running transactions
  • Manage interactions with other systems
Course Outline
  • Introduction to Event-Driven Architectures
    • Event-driven thinking and motivation for event-driven architectures
    • Characteristics of event-driven architectures and high-level parts
    • Benefits, challenges, and use cases
    • Relationship between microservices and event-driven architectures
  • The Fundamentals of an Event-Driven Architecture
    • Foundational definitions
    • Event types and the event structures that support them
    • Producers, consumers, and server events
    • Kinds of event consumers - simple, complex, and streaming.
  • Illustration - UberBeats 0.1
    • Throughout the course, an example - the hypothetical UberBeats application - is developed to illustrate the concepts discussed and show how each section builds on the previous material in practical terms.
  • Workshop 1 - An Event-Driven architecture
    • Working in groups, students develop an event-driven architecture. Workshops present a problem and guide students toward a solution while groups have creative freedom to exercise their understanding of the material and develop their solutions. Workshops are taken up as a class so groups see different solutions and learn from each other.
  • Event Brokers
    • Role of event broker in event-driven architectures
    • Queuing and pub/sub
    • Overview of Kafka
  • Data Schema Management
    • Contracts in event-driven architectures
    • Explicit and implicit contracts, pros and cons
    • Role of a schema in formalizing data format and meaning
    • Data representations - JSON, Protocol Buffers, Avro, and CML
    • Motivation for schema evolution and strategies
    • Principles of event modelling
  • Illustration - UberBeats 0.2
  • Workshop 2 - Data contracts
  • Integration Patterns
    • Common integration patterns - change data capture, event sourcing, and Kafka streams
    • The CAP theorem and implications for distributed systems
    • Good practices to manage consistency concerns
    • Managing schema dependency concerns
    • Single and multiple consumers, consumer groups, and Kafka Connect.
  • Streaming services
    • Role of streaming services in event-driven architectures
    • Pros, cons, and use cases
    • Components to implement a streaming service
    • Good practices
  • Illustration - UberBeats 0.3
  • Microservices
    • Definition and characteristics of microservices
    • Relationship between microservices and event-driven architectures
    • Integration concerns with services not designed for event-driven architectures
  • Implementing Event-Driven Workflows
    • Definition and characteristics of a workflow
    • Challenges with workflows and long-running transactions
    • Orchestration patterns
    • Role and pros/cons of compensating transactions
    • Good practices
  • Illustration - UberBeats 0.4
  • Event Reprocessing and Deterministic Behaviour
    • Event stream concepts, motivation for event reprocessing (what problems does it solve)
    • Illustrative use cases
    • Requirements - immutability, idempotence
    • Managing changes to history (retroactive events)
    • Challenges and good practices
    • Managing interactions with other systems
  • Conclusion