Today’s nimble and scalable applications are being written to be event-driven. With event-driven applications, processes do their work and then trigger events. Other processes listen for triggered ...

What is an event-driven application? An event-driven application is a computer program written to respond to actions generated by a user or system. In a computing context, an Event is any identifiable ...

Event-driven microservices are an excellent way to deliver both historical and new data to all of the systems and teams that need it, but they come with additional overhead and management requirements ...

“Asynchrony” is a scary word. It means taking events as they come, managing somehow to avoid being overtaken by them. Event-driven asynchrony is the foundation of serverless computing, which, as a ...

Event-driven architecture flips the traditional request-response model on its head by letting systems react the moment something happens. Instead of waiting for scheduled updates or manual prompts, ...

The advent of traditional cloud computing services -- like Amazon EC2-- presented a business case for offloading maintenance of physical servers onto a third party, eliminating upfront costs of ...