Panel
Panel: Event Driven Architectures of Scale
A panel discussion exploring event-driven architectures at scale, examining their evolution, advantages, and practical challenges in production systems.
A panel discussion with Wesley Reisz (VMware), Matthew Clark (BBC), Gwen Shapira (Confluent), and myself, exploring real-world implementations of event-driven architectures from organizations managing large-scale systems.
Topics Covered
- Transitioning from monolithic to event-driven systems
- Domain modeling and choreography vs. orchestration patterns
- Handling unordered events and idempotency requirements
- Topic design considerations for Kafka
- Day-2 operational concerns: monitoring, observability, and event versioning
- Lessons learned from production incidents
- When event-driven architecture is and isn’t appropriate
This was during the height of the pandemic when QCon ran as a virtual conference. The panel brought together perspectives from Confluent’s Kafka cloud services, BBC’s microservices infrastructure, and Flutter’s betting/gaming platforms.