An event-driven architecture is an application model that employs various events to migrate data across decoupled microservices so that information can move quickly from these capture points to the key decision-makers. At an elementary level, an event-driven architecture consists of event producers (like a mobile app or retail website), the event consumers (ie. fulfillment center, customer service agent, or customer response team), and the event router.
Event-Driven Workflow
In a basic event workflow, the event producer will first publish an event and transmit a message to the consumers that will alert everyone about the change. Next, an event processing platform will process the message asynchronously, determine the correct response, and send the resulting activity to the consumer.
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As a matter of fact, it doesn’t even need to be a call or a text message that creates the event; it could be a simple signal strength check, SMS update, or location update. Our mobile apps can be event producers working in the background.
Event-Driven Summary
In summary, all of these “events” summon decisions that are the initiators for different actions. With the rise of 5G and IoT, everything related to acting on events is becoming far more complex due to the increasing number and complexity of the events themselves.