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.