Event-Driven Architecture in Practice - Lessons Learned Building an e-Commerce Platform in 6 Months at Cinch

Explore event-driven architecture in practice through a case study of building an e-commerce platform at Cinch in this GOTO 2022 conference talk. Learn how serverless and event-driven approaches enabled rapid development, team autonomy, and feature release velocity. Discover the architecture, AWS services, and practices that helped Cinch succeed in creating their platform in just 6 months. Gain insights into emerging patterns, system evolution, and considerations for implementing event-driven architectures to increase team agility. Delve into topics such as serverless technology, microservices, asynchronous events, and observability, with practical examples using DynamoDB, TypeScript, NodeJS, and AWS Lambda.

Intro
What do we mean by serverless?
cinch
Why serverless?
Why event-driven?
Systems, teams & tech stack
What patterns emerged?
How to evolve the systems?
Conclusion
Outro