May 13, 2021

Event-driven systems

1 hour 11 minutes

In this episode we talk with Daniel and Steve about their experience with event-driven systems and shed some light on what they are and who they might be for. We explore topics like the complexity of setting up an event-driven system, the need to embrace eventual consistency, useful tools for building event-driven systems, and more.

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Featuring:

Daniel Selans – Website, GitHub, X
Steve High – GitHub, X
Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X
Kris Brandow – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

Batch - Daniel’s company, which is a platform for working with message busses and event-driven systems.

RabbitMQ - An event/message bus tool.

MQTT - Another event/message bus option that is very simple.

etcd - A fast key/value store. Daniel talks about using it as a cache in the episode.

Plumber CLI - A tool written by Batch to help work with any message bus

Event Sourcing - Martin Fowler’s article on event sourcing.

CUE - An encoding tool mentioned in the episode.

Code blocks example from Steve - In the show Steve mentions code blocks helping readability. This is an example of this.

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