Event-Driven Architecture

Definition Features + Benefits Education Insights In Action

What is
Event-Driven Architecture?

A lot has changed since businesses began developing mission-critical applications using a database as the central location for ingesting, storing, analyzing, and exporting virtually everything going in and out of the business.

The problem is, as businesses become more distributed and the world more fast-paced, more types of data need to be analyzed and integrated in real time; a much more agile and responsive application architecture is required in order to simply keep up, let alone get ahead. It’s time to ditch the database and transition to event-driven architecture.

Event-Driven Architecture

Definition Features + Benefits Education Insights In Action

Event-driven architecture (EDA) is a software development paradigm in which the application is laid out as a series of commands, events, and reactions. This is in contrast to a database-centric approach, where incoming data is stored in a database and then called upon later for further analysis.

An event, in this case, is any situation of interest that is generated with the use of Internet of Things (IoT) sensors, user-driven interfaces, camera and object recognition systems, and many more sensory mechanisms in the modern enterprise.

By switching to an event-driven approach, organizations can undergo digital transformation much easier, incorporating new technologies such as artificial intelligence, digital twins, edge computing, and more into new or already existing applications.

What are the Features and Benefits of
Event-Driven Architecture?

Real Time

Process and respond to streaming data as it occurs, reducing bottlenecks and increasing application efficiency

Asynchronous

Ingest events without blocking, no matter when they arrive or how frequently to enable dynamic, highly scalable processing

Loosely Coupled

The ability for systems to be modular so there aren’t dependencies, allowing for a more dynamic and fault-tolerant architecture

Agile

Respond quickly to a constantly changing environment. The decoupled/distributed nature of event-driven applications makes adding new modules and integrating multiple applications easier.

Scalable

Parallel, asynchronous processing allows for massive scalability to handle large quantities of streaming data

Interoperable

Effectively communicate and coordinate business events across previously disparate enterprise systems

"The adoption of EDA will allow a transition from current efforts that mostly monitor conditions passively to solutions that incorporate real-time operational intelligence."

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Event-Driven Education

Understanding
Event-Driven Systems

Learn what event-driven systems are, how they are structured, and the reasons why they are easier to design, build, and execute than traditional systems. Also included are example use cases for EDA.

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Understanding
Event-Driven
Systems

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Paul Butterworth, CTO

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Event-Driven Architecture Insights

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5 Reasons You Need Real-Time Event-Driven Applications

As business leaders scramble to keep up with the competition and improve the rate at which their business operates, one technology has stood out among the rest, event-driven architecture (EDA).

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Learn how event-driven architecture works and the different industries using EDA to change the way their business operates in this two minute explainer video.

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Blog

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In order to successfully undergo digital transformation, organizations must change the way they conceptualize their product or desired outcome.

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Business agility is now more important than ever. In order to keep employees and citizens safe businesses and governments around the world need to be looking to Event-Driven Architecture for answers.

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Event-Driven Architecture in Action

Case Study

250,000 Elevators in Real Time

INESA is able to ensure the safety and security of 250k elevators spread across Shanghai using event-driven technology.

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Case Study

10x Speed to Monitor the Solar Grid

Using the power of event-driven architecture, Electra is able to monitor the real-time status of solar energy production on multiple subsystems spread across Israel.

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Powering Real-Time Agriculture Monitoring

See how WaterBit is using Vantiq's real-time event-driven architecture to power their vast network of smart agriculture sensors and why they chose to develop using EDA.

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