Chapter 9: Event Brokers and Middleware

In this section

• 9.1 Role of Middleware in EDA
  • Importance of Middleware in Event-Driven Architecture
    Explore the critical role of middleware in event-driven architecture, facilitating communication, decoupling services, enabling scalability, ensuring reliability, and more.
  • Common Middleware Solutions in Event-Driven Architecture
    Explore common middleware solutions in event-driven architecture, including message brokers, ESBs, event streaming platforms, API gateways, service meshes, iPaaS, and custom solutions.
  • Selecting the Right Broker for Event-Driven Architectures
    Explore how to select the right broker for event-driven architectures by assessing system requirements, understanding messaging patterns, evaluating performance metrics, and considering scalability, integration, cost, support, and security.
• 9.2 Apache Kafka
  • Apache Kafka Architecture and Components: A Comprehensive Guide
    Explore the architecture and components of Apache Kafka, including producers, brokers, topics, partitions, consumers, and more, to understand how Kafka enables scalable and resilient event-driven systems.
  • Kafka Streams and kSQL: Stream Processing and Real-Time Analytics
    Explore Kafka Streams and kSQL for scalable, real-time stream processing and analytics in Apache Kafka. Learn about key features, implementation, and best practices.
  • Apache Kafka Use Cases and Best Practices for Event-Driven Architectures
    Explore the use cases and best practices for implementing Apache Kafka in event-driven architectures, including real-time analytics, microservices communication, log aggregation, stream processing, and fraud detection.
• 9.3 RabbitMQ
  • Core Features of RabbitMQ: Exploring Message Queuing, Exchange Types, and More
    Discover the core features of RabbitMQ, including message queuing, exchange types, routing keys, durable queues, clustering, and more. Learn how RabbitMQ supports high availability and integrates with various protocols.
  • Enhancing RabbitMQ with Plugins and Extensions for Advanced Event-Driven Architectures
    Explore how RabbitMQ plugins and extensions can enhance your event-driven architecture with advanced features like monitoring, federation, message shoveling, and more.
  • RabbitMQ Deployment Strategies: On-Premises and Cloud Solutions
    Explore comprehensive deployment strategies for RabbitMQ, including on-premises, cloud, and containerized environments, with best practices for scalability, security, and performance optimization.
• 9.4 Serverless and Cloud-Based EDA Solutions
  • AWS EventBridge: A Comprehensive Guide to Serverless Event-Driven Architecture
    Explore AWS EventBridge, a serverless event bus service that integrates applications using events from AWS services, SaaS applications, and custom sources. Learn about event buses, schemas, integration sources, routing, security, and more.
  • Azure Event Grid: Building Event-Driven Architectures in Azure
    Explore Azure Event Grid, a fully managed event routing service that connects event sources to event handlers, enabling event-driven architectures in Azure.
  • Google Cloud Pub/Sub: Scalable Messaging for Event-Driven Architectures
    Explore Google Cloud Pub/Sub, a scalable, fully managed messaging service for reliable, asynchronous communication in event-driven architectures. Learn about topics, subscriptions, message flow, delivery, and security.