All posts tagged: Event Driven Architecture

Introduction

This is the second blog about event driven architecture. As was described in the first blog item, there are several levels on which events occur and are relevant. It is important on which level you want to implement your EDA. In this blog I will concentrate on the application-to-application level and beyond and I will describe a reference architecture that we use at SynTouch.

Event Driven Architecture

Events are the driving force within the event driven architecture. Events are produced, detected, consumed and reacted upon. One of the main principles of EDA is the separation and isolation of the sources and the handling of the event notifications. The advantages and use cases for an EDA are:

Introduction

Data is the buzzword these days: organizations want to be data driven. They create a lot of data, want to create value out of this data and want the data fast and available 24/7. Therefore the IT architecture needs to be flexible, scalable, resilient, responsive and message (data) driven.

This is where an Event Driven Architecture (EDA) can help and in the next 4 blogs I want to guide you in this event journey.

This first blog will be about events in general and how they can be utilized on all kinds of levels within an organization. In the second blog I will talk about a reference architecture that organizations can use as a starting point. It explains which capabilities are relevant in such an architecture. In the third blog I will describe some principles and guidelines that you can use within an event driven architecture. In the last blog I will explain how an organization can become event driven. I will take you through a maturity model and the steps that you can take to get to a level that your organization needs to reach its business goals.