The Tests You SHOULD Be Writing In Event-Driven Systems
Hi, I'm James. And in this video you'll learn all about the types of tests you should be writing when building an event-driven system ...
February 20, 2025
Stop Letting External Events Control Your System (Do This Instead)
Hi, I'm James. And ordinarily, I don't like dealing in absolutes. With a title like "you should ALWAYS", you might struggle to believe ...
February 13, 2025
Using Events To Start Breaking Down A Monolith
Hi, I'm James! Join me to see one of the simplest ways to start breaking down a monolithic application, using events. Learn how to ...
January 30, 2025
Securing Your Event-Driven Systems
Improve the security posture of your event-driven system through using thick versus thin events, encryption, and infrastructure-level controls to ensure that only authorized services can access sensitive data.
August 21, 2024
Observability for Event-Driven Systems
Understanding cause and effect in event-driven systems is hard. Loosely coupled services, publishing and reacting to events. When things break, how do you actually understand why?
August 2, 2024
What is the Cloud Events Specification & Why You Should Care!
Change is the only constant in software. It's something you will all have to deal with. Particularly when you're building event-driven systems and producers have no idea consumers exist.
July 21, 2024
Build Request/Response integrations in an asynchronous world
Request/response style integration is only made for synchronous systems... right? If you need two services to communicate directly, HTTP is your only option. Fear not, there is another way.
July 11, 2024
The Most Important Idea You're Not Thinking About in Event-Driven Architecture
Things that you publish and other systems consume them. But how do you manage the difference between an event that's only relevant for your system, and an event you want to expose to the external world?
July 5, 2024
Stream, Event Bus or Queue? What's the Difference?
Stream, Event Buses and Queues? What are they, what is the difference between them and when might you pick one over the other in your systems?
March 12, 2024