Event Driven Architecture

Designing Resilient Event-Driven Systems

How we handle failures changes drastically in the event-driven systems world. Unlike the immediate feedback loop with API-based systems, producers fire off a message and assume things will work fine. This is not just technical; it's also about trust and reliability.When I was working on an e-commerce application, it really taught me the importance of failure handling in event-driven systems. It became more apparent when we hit peak sales campaigns. The volume of events coming in really tested the system,...

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Kafka Basics and Core concepts

Source: https://www.confluent.io/ Let’s start by answering the question “What is Kafka?”. Kafka is a Distributed Streaming Platform or a Distributed Commit Log Let’s try to understand those jargons. Kafka works as a cluster of one or more nodes that can live in different Datacenters, we can distribute data/ load across different nodes in the Kafka Cluster, and it is inherently scalable, available, and fault-tolerant. Kafka stores data as a stream of continuous records which can be processed in different methods. This...

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