How Event Driven Architectures Go Wrong & How to Fix Them • Matthew Meckes • GOTO 2024

This presentation was recorded at GOTO EDA Day 2024. #GOTOcon #GOTOeda #GOTOldn http://gotoldn.com Matthew Meckes - Senior Serverless Specialist at AWS RESOURCES https://twitter.com/mmeckes https://www.linkedin.com/in/mmeckes ABSTRACT Event Driven Architectures can provide many benefits when building distributed cloud applications, particularly speed and agility. However that also means teams can ship their bad ideas faster than ever, and a lack of standards and governance can leave teams creating a bit of a mess. Fortunately the same agility means the fixes can come just as fast. After seeing hundreds of teams implement EDA patterns, I’ll share the most common gotchas I come across. We’ll take a journey into pinball machines, YOLO events, god events, observability soup, event loops. exposing the monolith, state corruption, and how to avoid a surprise bill. We’ll also look at strategies and techniques teams can use to avoid the pitfalls. [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 00:51 What are we trying to achieve with EDA? 06:06 YOLO events 11:18 God events 15:28 (Too) Sparse events 16:37 Pinball events 19:59 Leaky domains 23:07 Inside out events 29:24 Outro Download slides and read the full abstract here: https://gotoldn.com/2024-eda-aws-day/sessions/3264 RECOMMENDED BOOKS James Urquhart • Flow Architectures • https://amzn.to/3Tyz8cY Adam Bellemare • Building Event-Driven Microservices • https://amzn.to/3WfNKfM Peter Sbarski • Serverless Architectures on AWS • https://amzn.to/3hJzEUM Michael Stack • Event-Driven Architecture in Golang • https://amzn.to/3G5e8ST Ford, Richards, Sadalage & Dehghani • Software Architecture: The Hard Parts • https://amzn.to/3v4pKQS Gerardus Blokdyk • Event-Driven Architecture EDA • https://amzn.to/3FOfUHE https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.instagram.com/goto_con https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #EDA #Serverless #YOLOEvents #DDD #EventDrivenArchitecture #SoftwareArchitecture #AWS #EventDriven #Backend #EventBridge #MatthewMeckes Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1