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Event-driven systems may not be the go-to solution for everyone because of the challenges they can add. While the system reacting to events published in other parts of the system seem elegant, some of the complexities they bring can be challenging. However, they do offer durability, autonomy & flexibility.

In this episode, we’ll define event-driven architecture, discuss the problems it solves, challenges it poses & potential solutions.

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Featuring:

• Chris Richardson – Mastodon, Twitter, LinkedIn
• Indu Alagarsamy – Twitter, LinkedIn, Website
• Viktor Stanchev – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Angelica Hill – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

• Temporal
• Patterns
• Choreography vs orchestration
• Event sourcing
• CQRS
• Cloud-based workflow solutions
  • GCP Workflows
    • GCP workflows yaml language
  • AWS Step Functions
    • “Amazon states language” based on json
• Go specific microservices orchestration tools, frameworks, and libraries:
  • Temporal Go SDK
  • Watermill

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