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Who is the course for and prerequisites
From Zero to Hero: Event-Driven Architecture
Learn everything you need to start using Event-Driven Architecture
About This Course
Event-driven architecture is considered to be the holy grail of system design in many ways. Its design is based on events, which are actions around which we can build reactive systems. This leads to asynchronous, decoupled, persistent, fault-tolerant and scalable systems. In this course, Datadog Developer Advocate (ex AWS) James Eastham will assume no prior knowledge of EDA and teach you the fundamentals as well as advanced concepts on understanding, implementing and testing Event-Driven Architecture systems.
Course Curriculum
5h 30m 9 sections
Introduction
Coupling; The silent killer of distributed systems
What is an event?
Event-driven vs event-based
Types of events
Microservics vs event-driven architecture
Event storming
Building blocks of event-driven systems
Stream, queue or bus. What’s the difference?
Pros & Cons of Event-Driven Systems
Introduction
Responsibilites as a producer
Publishing your first event
Public vs private events
The outbox pattern, part 1
The outbox pattern, part 2
Schema design and event structure
Summary
Introduction
Responsibilities as a subscriber
Build your first subscriber
Naively implementing idempotency
Handling errors
Summary
Introduction
Demo Application Overview
Storage-first API’s
Technology choices for this course
Front-end communication in an async world
Thin events & smarter callbacks
Idempotency - done better
Versioning events and evolvability
Handling failures
Summary
Introduction
Orchestration vs choreography
Orchestration in action
Commands can be asynchronous too
Reversing actions with the Saga pattern
Technology choices for building orchestrators
Trade-offs of Orchestration vs choreography
Introduction
Distributed tracing + context
Semantic conventions for messaging
Understanding dependent systems
Span links vs trace propagation
Are metrics important?
Documenting your event-driven system
Summary
Introduction
Challenges with testing EDA?
Integration tests in practice
Schema/Contract testing
Testing for failure
Testing for idempotency
Summary
Deploying event-driven systems
EDA in legacy systems
Next steps
Course Details
Level From Zero to Hero
Duration 5h 30m
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James Eastham
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