Build an Event-driven Microservices with Apache Kafka & Apache Flink

A microservices architecture makes it easier to develop and scale rapidly with a growing data load. However, synchronous API calls tightly couples microservices and introduces problems such as fault intolerance, poor performance, and decelerating time-to-marker for new features. Event driven architecture is an effective design pattern to solve these problems. However, implementing this pattern can be challenging too, because each component must manage the state of each event separately. In this talk, learn how to decouple the communication between disparate microservices using Apache Kafka and manage the state of the events separately using Apache Flink Stateful functions. You will learn how this architecture simplifies the pub / sub pattern by handling the event routing differently without requiring creation of too many topics within the Apache Kafka cluster.