Building event-driven microservices with Adam Bellemare | Coding Over Cocktails

Event-driven architectures are known to improve agility and scalability in systems while offering a great advantage when used with microservices.
In this episode, we take a deeper dive into event-driven microservices with Confluent Staff Technologist Adam Bellemare, who discusses the concepts, patterns and workflows behind event-driven architectures in a microservices setting.

Episode outline:
• Adam Bellemare talks about his book Building Event-Driven Microservices: Leveraging Organizational Data at Scale, and discusses the definition of an event.
• How does event-driven architecture work in a microservices setting?
• How does Conway’s Law apply to event-driven microservices?
• Bellemare gives us a brief rundown of the differences between Asynchronous and Synchronous Microservices, and why he advocates for the former.
• Does an event-driven architecture also have a contract?
• What is Data Liberation and how does it lead to a more event-driven architecture?
• Bellemare runs us through the patterns for building workflows with microservices.
• What is the status of the market for tooling for building event-driven microservices?

[nickgreenthirteen]

This Bellemare fellow is mighty handsome