Event Streams in Action: EddieNotes

A company is an organization that generates and responds to a continuous stream of events.

Points

Continuous event streams enable fresher insights

Continuous event streams enable a single version of the truth

Continuous event streams enable businesses have faster reactions

Continuous event streams enable simpler architectures.

Events

An event is anything that we can observe during a particular point in time.

An event is not:

a description of ongoing state of something ー the API client was broken. But "the API client broke at noon on Tuesday" is an event.

a recurring occurrence

a collection of individual events

a happening that spans a timeframe

Continuous Event Streams

Continuous event stream is an unterminated succession of individual events, ordered by the point in time at which each event occured.

Software Systems influenced by Continuous Event Streams

Transactional Systems

Data Warehouses

Systen=ms monitoring

Web Analytics packages

Programming Areas influenced by Continuouos Event Streams

Application-level logging

Web analytics(Google Analytics)

Publish/Subscribe messaging maybe Medium?

Unifying Continuous Event Streams

The book argues there should be a unified continuous event stream. It should be restructured around a process that does the following:

Collects events from disparate source systems

Stores them in a unified log

Enables data processing applications to operate on these event streams.

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