Designing Events and Event Streams - Introduction to Designing Events and Event Streams

Events as a design tool

This introduction is about how to design the events a system publishes, and how those events are grouped into streams. It treats the event itself as something to design deliberately, not just a payload that happens to be sent.

Why it matters

Event naming, shape and ownership decide how easily other services can react to changes later. Learning the vocabulary of events and event streams first makes the later lessons on event-driven microservices easier to follow.

Who it suits

Backend developers and architects who are moving from request-response APIs to publishing changes as events will get the most out of it. The listing is brief, so check the course outline for worked examples before committing time to it.