Data-Streaming

Middleware Trends: Message Brokers and Event-Driven Architectures Middleware trends are moving toward more decoupled and scalable systems. Message brokers and event-driven architectures let services talk through asynchronous channels instead of direct, synchronous calls. This approach helps teams ship features faster and manage traffic bursts with less risk. It also makes it easier to add new services without rewriting existing code. A message broker sits between producers and consumers. It stores, routes, and sometimes transforms messages using queues and topics. With patterns like publish/subscribe and competing consumers, a single service can send updates without waiting for a reply, while others pull messages when they are ready. The result is better resilience and a clearer distribution of work across teams. ...

Event‑Driven Architectures: Integrating Systems Event-driven architectures connect software components through events. Instead of calling each other directly, services publish events when something happens and other services react to those events. This approach helps systems grow and adapt, especially in distributed environments. Key parts are simple: producers that emit events, a broker that stores and routes events, and consumers that react to events. Common brokers include Kafka, RabbitMQ, and cloud services like AWS EventBridge. When you pick a broker, think about throughput, latency, and how you want to replay events. ...