Shifting Gears: From Events to Event-Driven Architecture

Explore a comprehensive conference talk on transitioning from a message-based system to an event-driven architecture. Learn how Motorway, a rapidly growing scale-up, transformed its highly coupled and synchronous system into an event-driven one. Discover the key differences between systems with messages and truly event-driven systems, and gain insights into how product and engineering teams can collaborate to implement these changes. Delve into the process of identifying domain boundaries, defining asynchronous APIs, and delivering an event-driven system in just weeks. Follow the journey from the initial challenges to the final implementation, with discussions on team dynamics, business alignment, and future directions. Gain valuable takeaways for implementing event-driven architectures in your own projects, with practical examples and lessons learned from Motorway's experience.

Intro
Agenda
Where we started
Events without purpose
Becoming event-driven
It's all about the teams
Bring the business along
Arriving at the destination
What's next?
Takeaways
Outro