The Many Meanings of Event-Driven Architecture • Martin Fowler • GOTO 2017
Overview
Martin Fowler's GOTO Chicago 2017 talk on the different things people mean by event-driven architecture. He identifies four patterns, including event notification and event-carried state transfer.
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Cited as a useful taxonomy for pinning down what an event-driven design actually is.
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Video by GOTO Conferences, played through YouTube.
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