7.3 Scaling Consumer Applications

In this section

• Horizontal Scaling Techniques for Event-Driven Architectures
  Explore horizontal scaling techniques to enhance throughput, fault tolerance, and cost-effectiveness in event-driven systems. Learn about auto-scaling, containerization, load balancing, and best practices for scaling consumer applications.
• Managing Consumer State in Event-Driven Architectures
  Explore strategies for managing consumer state in event-driven systems, focusing on stateless and stateful consumer designs, and leveraging external state stores and idempotent processing.
• Ensuring Stateless Consumers in Event-Driven Architectures
  Explore the principles and benefits of designing stateless consumers in event-driven architectures, focusing on scalability, fault tolerance, and flexibility.