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Golang and Event-Driven Architecture

On March 31, 2022, I gave a talk at Conf42:Golang about using Go in an event-driven architecture entitled "Gopher in an Event-Driven Playground." You can check out the talk here or read along to know more about event-driven systems and how different messaging protocols are used in Go!

What's All the Hype About?

For all of us Go enthusiasts out there, we truly understand the beauty of using Go in applications and microservices because of its lightweight, high performance, and elegant syntax, to name just a few (let the debate start! ).

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Event-Driven Architecture: 5 More Myths

In a previous post, I discussed what event-driven architecture (EDA) is and the common claims associated with it. Since EDA is not a common concept and has been around in the industry for over 20 years now (yes that's right!), it has accumulated a lot of claims associated with it and, over the years, some of these claims have been busted as myths or proven as facts.  

In this post, I will discuss 5 more claims about EDA and providing an argument as to whether each is a myth or a fact. Let's get started!

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Event-Driven Architectures: 5 Myths

Event-Driven Architecture: Bust or Fact?

Alright, let's face it—there is a lot of content talking about how REST vs messaging APIs and how one is more fir than the other for a microservices architecture design. I wrote a blog post about My journey to learning EDA that highlights what event-driven architecture is. Whether you are new to event-driven architecture (EDA) or have some background with it via dabbling with gRPC, kafka, rabbitMQ, Solace, or whatever messaging API, I am here to share with you 5 claims about EDA that I will be busting or confirming. 

I Will Have to Re-Design My Rest-Heavy Architecture From Scratch To Adopt EDA

MYTH

Advanced event brokers allow for protocol translation within the broker. What does this mean you might ask? Well, it is very common in any software architecture design approach to have a polyglot of protocols and APIs in an application. Whether you are using REST, or different messaging protocols (MQTT, AMQP, Solace, Kafka...etc) you would want your different microservices to communicate with each other.