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On a recent episode of Streaming Audio, Gwen Shapira, Michael Noll, and Ben Stopford joined me to hold forth about the near future of Apache Kafka® and software architecture in

First, what is event sourcing? Here’s an example. Consider your bank account: viewing it online, the first thing you notice is often the current balance. How many of us drill

So far in this series, we have recognized that by going back to first principles, we have a new foundation to work with. Event-first thinking enables us to build a

When should you use an API? When should you use an event? Most contemporary software architectures are some mix of these two approaches. I will attempt to articulate in layman’s

With serverless being all the rage, it brings with it a tidal change of innovation. Given that it is at a relatively early stage, developers are still trying to grok

Part 1 of this series discussed why you need to embrace event-first thinking, while this article builds a rationale for different styles of event-driven architectures and compares and contrasts scaling,

The world is changing. New problems need to be solved. Companies now run global businesses that span the globe and hop between clouds in real-time, breaking down data silos to

In the future, data will be as automated and self-service as infrastructure is today. You’ll open a console that lists the data available in your company; define the pieces you

While Silicon Valley is always awash with new technology buzzwords, one that has become increasingly dominant in recent years is stream processing: a type of software designed to transport, process

Typically, an enterprise service bus (ESB) or other integration solutions like extract-transform-load (ETL) tools have been used to try to decouple systems. However, the sheer number of connectors, as well