Should you be using an event driven architecture?

Should you be using an
Event Driven Architecture?
Jeppe Cramon - @jeppec
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“Example isn’t another way to teach,
it is the only way to teach”
Albert Einstein

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Let’s look at Online Shopping

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Most sites follow a
similar pattern

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public class OrderService {
public void save(Order order) {
orderRepository.add(order);
if (inventoryService.areOrderItemsInStock(order)) {
order.setStatus(OrderStatus.ItemsInStock);
shippingService.startPackagingOrder(order);
emailService.send(generateOrderOrderItemsInStockEmail(order));
} else {
order.setStatus(OrderStatus.NotAllItemsInStock);
emailService.send(generateOrderItemsNotInStockEmail(order));
executeMethod(OrderService::checkOrderInventoryStatus, Period.ofDays(1));
}
}
public void checkOrderInventoryStatus(OrderId orderId) {
Order order = orderRepository.load(orderId);
} else {
}
}
Side effect. What happens if we call save() twice?

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…

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Let’s decouple Order- and
Inventory Service further

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List<ProductId> productIdsOutOfStock = inventoryService.checkProductStockStatus(
order.orderLines.toMap(OrderLine::productId, OrderLine::quantity));
if (productIdsOutOfStock.isEmpty()) {
} else {
emailService.send(generateOrderItemsNotInStockEmail(order, productIdsOutOfStock));
}
}

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What about
race conditions?

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List<ProductId> productIdsOutOfStock = inventoryService.reserveProductsForOrder(order.orderId,
order.orderLines.toMap(OrderLine::productId, OrderLine::quantity));
} else {
emailService.send(generateOrderItemsNotInStockEmail(order, productIdsOutOfStock));
}
}
Introduces an additional side effect

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Essential complexity of 2 way integration
Inventory
Service
Order
Service
Shipping
Service
UI
Start-
Packaging
Save-Order
Order:Save-Order()
call Inventory:Reserve-Products()
call Shipping:Start-Packaging()
commit()
Reserve-
Products
Local transaction between the 3
“Services”

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Let’s (micro)service’ify this

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Accidental complexity from distributed service integration
Inventory
Service
Order
Service
Shipping
Service
UI
Start-
Packaging
Save-Order
Reserve-
Products
Local transaction between 2 local
“Services”Remote call

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Remote Call?
RPC/REST/SOAP/…

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What’s the challenge with
using a Pull model between
distributed components?

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Synchronous calls lower our tolerance for faults
• When you get an IO error
• When servers crash or restarts
• When databases are down
• When deadlocks occurs in our databases
• Do you retry?
With synchronous style Service interaction we can loose business data if there’s no automatic retry
Or we risk creating data more than once if the operation isn’t idempotent*
Client Server
Duplicated Response
Duplicated Request
Processing
Response
Request Processing
The same message can be
processed more than once
*Idempotence describes the quality of an operation
in which result and state does not change if the
operation is performed more than 1 time

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Idempotence
Don’t press the button twice!

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Ensuring
consistency
is much harder

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Sales system
Sale
Delivery
system Deliveries
Customer/CRM
system Customer
SAP Bookkeeping
Complete
Purchase
Transaction
Coordinator
Transactional
Resource
Prepare
Phase
Commit
Phase
2 Phase Commit

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What’s wrong with distributed transactions?
• Transactions lock resources while active
• Services are autonomous
• Can’t be expected to finish within a certain time interval
• Locking keeps other transactions from completing their job
• Locking doesn’t scale
• X Phase Commit is fragile by design

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Using the pull model
we’re prone to
cascading failure

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Order:Save-Order()
call Inventory:Reserve-Products()
if (Shipping:Call-Failed:Too-Busy?)
Wait-A-While()
if (Shipping:Call-Failed:Too-Busy?)
Wait-A-Little-While-Longer()
if (Shipping:Call-Failed:IO-Error?)
Save-We-Need-Check-If-Call-Shipping-Succeded-After-All
AND We-Need-To-Retry call Order:Save-Order and call Inventory:Reserve-Products
AND Tell-Customer-That-This-Operation-Perhaps-Went-Well
if (Shipping:Call-Went-Well?)
commit()
Accidental complexity from distributed service integration
Inventory
Service
Order
Service
Shipping
Service
UI
Start-
Packaging
Save-Order
Reserve-
Products
Local transaction between 2
Components

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“A distributed system is one
where a machine I’ve never heard
of can cause my program to fail”
— Leslie Lamport

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Service autonomy
Order Inventory
Shipping
Retail System
Shipping
Order Inventory
Retail System
Slow/unreliable network
Different SLA
Slow system

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Availability goes down
(without additional instances of each service)
Combined availability: 97%

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Services != Decoupling

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But surely RPC is the only way
to do this?

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We need to switch from a pull
to a push model
Which means we need to change our approach
slightly but profoundly

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Most applications are built with CRUD as the main
paradigm
Intention gets lost

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We need to shift focus from pure data
towards intent and process automation
This means a change from CRUD style application design, where the
process was implicit and stored in the minds of the users
First I need to
enter the
employee in
this screen
Then I need to press
a button in the user
system so they’re
properly created
And the I need to
add their access
card to this screen
and press Activate

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We need to capture User Intent at the UI
CRUD style
Task based style
Intent

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Task-based/Inductive UI
• Traditional CRUD UI is what I would call a WHAT UI
• Task based UI’s focuses on HOW the user wants to use the
application
• Guides users through the work process
• The UI becomes an intrinsic part of the design
• The UI design directly affects our commands and thereby our
transactional boundaries

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Capturing intent in the form of a Command
A Command is prescriptive of what should happen, and its primary goal is to capture USER
INTENT
A Command
supports a single usecase and
targets a single business object
within a single Transaction
Commands always carry a name in its imperative form:
• AcceptOrder
• ShipOrder
• CancelOrder
• ReimburseCustomer
• Etc.
“A command describes a Task that you want someone else to carry out
for you and where the recipient can choose to reject the Command”

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Let’s capture the intent of the customer
public void handle(AcceptOrder cmd) {
orderRepository.add(new Order(cmd.orderId,
cmd.orderLines));
????
}

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How do we get the
ball moving now that we can’t
use RPC?

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Life Beyond Distributed Transactions
by Pat Helland
1. How do we split our data
2. How do we identify our data
3. How do we communicate between our services

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1. How do we split our data
Data must be collected in pieces called aggregates.
These aggregates should be limited in size (but not smaller), so that,
after a transaction they are consistent.
Rule of thumb:
One transaction involves only one aggregate.

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Domain Driven Design
The term Aggregate comes from DDD

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Aggregates
Invoice
InvoiceLine
*
Account *
What:
• Cluster coherent Entities and Value Objects, with
complex associations into Aggregates with well
defined boundaries.
• Choose one entity to be root and control access to
objects inside the boundary through the root.
Motivation:
Control invariants and consistency through the aggregate root.
Ensuring consistency & transactional boundaries for Distributed scenarios!
Root
*
*

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2. How do we identify our data
According to Pat Helland we need to be able to uniquely identify each
Aggregate using an ID.
• This ID will usually a UUID/GUID
{21EC2020-3AEA-4069-A2DD-08002B30309D}
2122 (approximately 5.3×1036) combinations

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Aggregates refer to each other by ID
they NEVER use memory pointers, join tables or remote calls

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Services/Bounded Contexts and Aggregates
Order
Product
Customer
customerId
…
Order
orderId
customerId
…
OrderLine
orderId
productId
quantity
price
ProductCategory
productCategoryId
…
Product
productId
productCategoryId
name
tag
...

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3. How do we communicate between our services
What do we do when our process involves more than
one aggregate and therefore likely more than one
service?

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Synchronous calls are the crystal meth of programming
At first you make good progress but then the sheer horror
becomes evident when you realise the scalability limitations
and how the brittleness holds back both performance and
development flexibility. By then it is too late to save.
http://www.infoq.com/news/2014/10/thompson-reactive-manifesto-2
We need the reactive properties and then apply protocols
for the message interactions. Without considering the
protocols of interaction this world of micro-services will
become a coordination nightmare.
Martin Thompson

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Coupling matrix*
* Modified version of Ian Robinson’s matrix: http://iansrobinson.com/2009/04/27/temporal-and-behavioural-coupling/
Behavioral
coupling
Temporal
coupling
Low High
Low
High
Reactive/
Event oriented
Command oriented
Emergency services Distributed 3 layer

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We need to change focus from short
technical transactions
To long running business transactions supporting
business processes

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Using Business Events to drive Business Processes
Order Service
Shipping
Billing
Sales
Customers
MessageChannel
Online Ordering System
Web Shop
(Composite UI)
Inventory Service
Shipping Service
Order
Accepted
AcceptOrder
The sales
fulfillment
processing can
now begin…

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Events
An Event is non-prescriptive of what should happen in other parts of the system.
An event will typically be published to multiple consumers/subscribers:
• The publisher of the event does not know who the subscribers are
• And the publisher doesn’t know what the subscribers intend to do with the event
Events always carry a name in its past-tense form:
OrderWasAccepted
OrderHasShipped
CustomerWasReimbursed
“An Event describes something that HAS happened”

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Push model
• Event based integration follows a push based model that breaks
temporal coupling and avoids cascading failures
• Events can be exchanged between services over a message channel
(that can be implemented using a push or pull protocol)
Sender
Address Changed Event
Receiver
Address Changed Event
Channel
Asynchronous Communication – A.k.a. Messaging

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Smart pipes and “dumb” endpoints – Push protocol
Service X
Publish
Topic
Data and flow direction
Message infrastructure
(e.g. Kafka, RabbitMQ, QBus)
Service Z
Subscribe
Service Y
Subscribe
Service M
Subscribe

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Service X
Publish
Service Z
Consume
Service Y
Consume
Service M
Consume
Atom File based Feed
generator
Oldest
Feed
Older
Feed
Old
Feed
Feed
Head Previous feed link
HTTPEndpoint
Next feed link
Next feed link
Previous feed link
HTTP Reverse
Proxy
HTTP Reverse
Proxy
Cache
Cache
Atom Pub Feed
as a JSON/XML
file
Dumb pipes and smart endpoints (Pull Protocol)
Data and flow direction

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Business Event as XML Message
<OrderWasAccepted>
<CustomerId>50D1F244-ABBC-4EC7-BDCA-E4934C124A89</CustomerId>
<OrderId>C199322A-01F1-4E56-918E-7A63529F8FA3</OrderId>
<ShippingAddress> ... </ShippingAddress>
<BillingAddress> ... </BillingAddress>
<Items>
<Item ProductId="4CD22C4B-600C-4477-B5BF-48ABDEE4DA61" Amount="100"
AmountUnit="Pieces" UnitPrice="100,10" UnitCurrency="EUR"/>
<Item ProductId="56E6BD19-660C-464A-9120-100DAF579855" Amount="10"
AmountUnit="Litres" UnitPrice="56,95" UnitCurrency="CHF"/>
</Items>
</OrderWasAccepted>

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Business Event as JSON Message
{
EventType: "OrderWasAccepted",
CustomerId: "50D1F244-ABBC-4EC7-BDCA-E4934C124A89",
OrderId: "C199322A-01F1-4E56-918E-7A63529F8FA3",
ShippingAddress: { ... }
BillingAddress: { ... }
Items: [
{
ProductId: "4CD22C4B-600C-4477-B5BF-48ABDEE4DA61",
Amount: "100",
AmountUnit: "Pieces",
UnitPrice: "100,10",
UnitCurrency: "EUR"
},
{
ProductId: "56E6BD19-660C-464A-9120-100DAF579855",
Amount: "10",
AmountUnit: "Litres",
UnitPrice: "56,95",
UnitCurrency: "CHF"
}
]
}

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Different uses for Events
• Master data management and Data duplication
• Data replication / migration
• Notification
• Service autonomy and Loosely coupled workflows/business processes
across Services
• UI component integration

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Master data management

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System A
System
B
System
C
System
D
4 systems with shared data and no clear master for data

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Login
Contact
Information
Memberships
CustomerMaster
System A
System
B
System
C
System
D
New solution

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System A
Update Customer
Contact Info
Update
Customer
ContactInfo
Process
”UpdateCustomerContactInfo”
command
Event Publisher
”CustomerContactInfoUpdated” Event
Customer View
Customer
local/cached replica
System D
BI/And other parties
System B
Customer Master

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Event channel based migration
New UI Old UI
Command Action
SQL
D
E
<<Read replica>>
C
Publishes Events
Event Publisher Channel
SQL
A
B
C

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Example of Event based notification
TrainPositionChanged
TrainStopped
TrainStarted
…
Every 5 ms.
Subscriber A
Subscriber B
Subscriber C

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Eventual consistency
• Consistency is with each Service
• Eventual consistency is between Services
• Like in the real world
Sales Invoicing
Inventory Shipping
Order
Accepted
Invoice Customer
Checks Inventory for availability Books truck driver
Order
Packaged
Fetch Package from Inventory
Customer
Invoiced

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Important!
Figure out who owns the process

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Gain competitive advantage
From vertical integration

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Choreographed Event Driven Processes
Sales Service
Order
Accepted
Billing Service
Order Fulfilment
(Saga/
Process-Manager)
Shipping Service
MessageChannel(e.g.aTopic)
Order
Accepted
Order
Accepted
Customer
Billed
Customer
Billed
Order
Approved
Order
Approved
Works as a Finite
State Machine
(WorkFlow)
handling the life
cycle of Shipping and
thereby forms a very
central new
Aggregate in the
System

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Process Managers
• Process Managers are essential to the coordination and
monitoring of long running business
processes/transactions
• They work as a Finite State Machines (WorkFlow) which
handling the life cycle of Process (e.g. Shipping an Order)
and thereby forms a very central new Aggregate in the
System
• They can include manual steps/person intervention
• Sometimes these Process Managers belong naturally
within a specific Business capability and other times they
are truly and thing by themselves and often form new
business capabilities that way
Many companies derive their competitive advantages from their Processes.
A Process Manager allows you coordinate Business Processes on the basis of Events

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Choreographed Event Driven Processes
Order Service
Order
Accepted
Inventory Service
Shipping Service
Order
Accepted
Inventory
Products
Reserved
Inventory
Products
Reserved
Order Ready
For
Shipping
Order
Ready For
Shipping

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Accept Order flow
public void handle(AcceptOrder cmd) {
orderRepository.add(new Order(cmd.orderId,
cmd.orderLines));
publish(new OrderAccepted(
cmd.orderId,
cmd.orderLines.toMap(OrderLine::productId,
OrderLine::quantity))
);
}

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Inventory flow
public class InventoryService {
public void on(OrderAccepted e) {
List<ProductId> productIdsOutOfStock = reserveProductsForOrder(e.orderId,
e.productsToReserve);
publish(new InventoryProductsReserved(e.orderId, e.productsToReserve));
} else {
publish(new InventoryProductsOutOfStock(e.orderId, e.productsToReserve,
productIdsOutOfStock));
}
}

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Message Handling and Idempotence
public class OrderShippingProcess {
private void on(OrderPaid orderPaid, ProductsReserved productsReserved) {
ShippingDetails shippingDetails = getShippingDetailsForOrder(orderPaid.orderId);
….
printShippingLabel(orderPaid.orderId, shippingDetails.address);
}
…
} Must also be idempotent

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There are only two hard
problems in distributed
systems
2. Exactly Once Delivery
1. Guaranteed Order of Messages
2. Exactly Once Delivery
@mathiasverraes

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Things are not quite the same
In a distributed systems the order in which messages arrive is not
guaranteed
In a distributed systems message delivery can and will fail!
Messages can depending on guarantees be delivered:
• At Most Once – If you don’t care about loosing messages
• Page visits
• Ad views
• Other types of notifications
• Exactly Once
• Not really possible
• At Least Once
• For everything else – which is why:
Everything that can handle messages must be built with idempotency in mind!

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Event coordination
• Do NOT copy data from incoming event to outgoing event – instead use
Event coordination from the next slide
Service C Event C
Data:
X
Data: Y
Data:
C, Y
Service D
This form of data copying from incoming
event to outgoing event is prohibited

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Event coordination continued
• Rule: If Service D also needs data from Event B, then Service D should
also listen for Event B instead of having Service C copy data from Event
B to Event C
Service C Event C
Data:
X
Data: Y
Data:
C
Service
D
Data: Y

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What should our Events look like?
• Keep Events Small
• Only include relevant metadata (such as sequence) and business data
• If possible, don’t include unnecessary id’s for aggregates in other services
• Think Inverse relationships based on what feels most natural
• Order doesn’t need to know the Shipping Id, but Shipping can know the Order Id
• Anchor Events to Time
• Include information about how long you can trust the Event’s change
• E.g. a price is valid until 8pm tomorrow night
• Reveal the intention and time anchoring as part of the Events name

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Internal vs External Events
{
EventType: ”OrderWasPaid",
CustomerId: "50D1F244-ABBC-4EC7-BDCA-E4934C124A89",
OrderId: "C199322A-01F1-4E56-918E-7A63529F8FA3",
Amount: …..
}
Internal Event:
{
EventType: "OrderWasPaid",
OrderId: "C199322A-01F1-4E56-918E-7A63529F8FA3"
}
External Event:

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Avoid using Events for generic services
When ever a new Service is introduced
the Generic Service (X) needs to be changed.
This creates an unnecessary degree of coupling
Service
A
Service
B
Service
C
Service X
Service
D
Event X

@jeppec
Use Commands for generic services
Instead of having Service X listen for MANY different events, let
Service X expose a command interface that other services can
use instead
Service
A
Service
B
Service
C
Service X
Service
D
Event X

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When to prefer a Pull based model?
• You want to have Authority (as opposed to Autonomy)
• Such as with a bank account
• GDPR compliance
• So sensitive data is only stored in one place (avoid data duplication)
• Orchestration of processes
• Sometimes events result in too much ceremony
• You have large amounts of data and your queries only involve a small set of
this data
• Example a Google search
• Most UI to backend interactions
• Loading data from the backend
• Pressing a button to send a Query or issue a Command

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How does shipping know
where to ship items to?

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Order Id
• Customer/customer-id

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Order Id
• Customer/customer-id
Linked to Order Id:
• Order Delivery address
• Order Shipping method
Linked to Order Id:
• Order shipping price

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Order
OrderId
Total
DeliveryAddress
Status
…
Decomposing the domain
Order
OrderId
Total
Status
…
ShippingDetails
OrderId
DeliveryAddress

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Composite page example
Page Context:
{id: ISBN-10 0-321-83457-7 }
Images
Books
Reviews
Pricing
Inventory
OthersAlsoBought
Pricing
Reviews
Books
Images
Books

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Service
Service - 1
Service - 2Service - 2
Service - 3
Broker
Broker
(Kafka,
RabbitMQ,
JMS)
Service - 1
Service - 2
Service - 2
Service - 3
Service - 3
Service - 4
Service - 4
Service - 4

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Service
Service - 1
Service - 1
Service - 2
Service - 2
Service - 2
Service - 2
Service - 3
Service - 3
Service - 3
Service - 3
Service - 4
Service - 4
Service - 4
Service - 4
QBus

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pricing_engine_ac
(deployed on 10.25.26.102)
pricing_engine_ac
(deployed on 10.25.26.101)
Bus Bus
Bus Bus
inventory_ac
(deployed on 10.25.26.104)
inventory_ac
(deployed on 10.25.26.103)
Federated Bus

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Topics
Bus features
• Decouples publisher from subscribers
• Provides temporal decoupling
• If a subscriber is unavailable it will receive its messages when it comes
online
Service - 4
Service - 1
Service - 3

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Topics
CreateOrder
Sales_Service:Orders_Ac
Webshop Application
Customer_Service:Some_Ac
OrderCreated
OrderCreatedEvent
Publish
CreateSomeRelatedAggregate
Sales_Service:OrderEvents
<<Topic>>
OrderCreatedEvent

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Topics
Bus features
But how do we handle:
• Coding errors in Subscribers?
• New Subscribers that didn’t exist when the events were originally
published?
Service - 4
Service - 1
Service - 3

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1. Realization
Commands and Queries
support very different usecases

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A single model cannot be
appropriate for reporting,
searching and transactional
behavior
Greg Young

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The Triangular Architecture
Task based
UI
Write
ModelRead ModelRead Model
Read
Models

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Commands & Events
Commands mutate Write model state
which results in
one or more Events being published.
Command Event(s)
AcceptOrder OrderAccepted
ShipOrder OrderShipped
AddComment CommentAdded
QuarantineReview ReviewQuarantined
UnquarantineReview ReviewUnquarantined

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The circle is completing

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We can use Domain Events to build our
View/Query models

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Read model
Read model
Commands, Events and Query Models
Events
UI
Write modelView models
”AcceptOrder”
command
”OrderAccepted”
event
”Find all Accepted Orders”
Query
Commands are Imperative: DoStuff
Events are Past tense: StuffDone

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CQRS Building blocks
Client
Commands
Command
Bus
Sends
Command
Handlers
Modify
Repositories
Read Write
Data
store
Event
Bus
Event Handlers
Events
Read store
Query HandlersQuery Results
Queries
Events
Domain

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Event Sourcing
Write-Model/Aggregates track their own Domain Events
and derive state from them
Time
07:39
Time
07:40
Time
07:41
Time
07:45
Time
07:46
Time
07:50

CRUD
There’s no reason to delete data or update data.
We only need to append and read Events from our Event Store

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Event Replaying
Type Aggregate
Identifier
Sequence
Number
Timestamp Event
Identifier
EventType SerializedEvent
Order 14237 0 2014-01-06 7:39 {Guid-1} OrderCreated <serialized event>…
Order 14237 1 2014-01-06 7:40 {Guid-2} ProductAdded <serialized event>…
Order 14237 3 2014-01-06 7:45 {Guid-4} ProductRemoved <serialized event>…
Order 14237 5 2014-01-06 7:50 {Guid-6} OrderAccepted <serialized event>…
Order
Accepted: true
Orderline
Orderline

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Full CQRS with EventSourcing
UI Domain
Event
Store
Commands – Change data
Commands Events
SQL DB Document DB Graph DB
UI Data
Queries – Ask for data
Events
Query Build
Our single source
of truth

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And we can use the
EventStore to support event
replays for new subscribers

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Client handled subscriptions
• Highly resilient pattern for an Event Driven Architecture that’s backed by
Event-Sourced services
• In this model the publisher of the Events is responsible for the durability of
all its Events, typically to an EventStore/EventLog.
• Each client (subscriber) maintains durable information of the last event it has
received from each publisher.
• When ever the client starts up it makes a subscription to the publisher
where it states from which point in time it wants events published/streamed
to it.
• This effectively means that publisher can remain simple and the client
(subscriber) can remain simple and we don’t need additional sophisticated
broker infrastructure such as Kafka+ZooKeeper.

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Client handled subscriptions
Publisher
Subscriber A
Local storage
EventStore
Subscriber B
Local storage
Topic
Subscription
Topic
Subscription
TopicSubscriptionHandler
TopicSubscriptionHandler
EventEvent
Event Event
EventBus
Event
Event
Distributed Event Bus,
which ensures that
live events published
on an AC node in the
cluster can be seen
by all AC’s of the
same type
Singe Instance
Subscriber, which
ensures that only
one instance of
Subscriber B has
an active
subscription(s).
Other instances of
the same
subscriber are
hot-standby
<<Topic Subscriber>>
Customer_Service:Some_Ac:OrderEvents
<<Topic Publisher>>
Sales_Service:OrderEvents

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Topics
Bus features
Service - 4
Service - 1
Service - 3
bus.registerReplayableTopicPublisher(InternalPricingEvents.TOPIC_NAME,
replayFromAggregate(Pricing.class)
.dispatchAggregateEventsOfType(
InternalPricingEvents.class
)
);
bus.subscribeTopic(SERVICE_AC_ID.topicSubscriber(”Pricing"),
InternalPricingEvents.TOPIC_NAME,
new PricingTopicSubscription(bus));

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Topics
public class PricingTopicSubscription extends BusMessageHandlerDelegator {
@BusMessagePayloadHandler
private void on(PrincingChanged e, BusMessage<PricingChanged> msg) {
…
}
…
}

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Topics
Bus features
Features:
• The Bus provides automatic and durable handling of Redelivery in case of message handling failure
through a Redelivery Policy
• Exponential Back-off
• Max retries
• Dead letter/Error Queue
• Support for resubscription at any point in the timeline of an Event Stream
• Automatically tracking of resubscription points - aka. resubscribe at last tracked point
Service - 4
Service - 1
Service - 3

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Can’t we just use Kafka?

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With Kafka we still need smart
endpoints

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Requires a lot of work

@jeppec
Bus features
Features:
• Support for sending a message to a single consumer
• Default pattern is Competing Consumers
• The bus provides durability for all messages sent on a Queue
• The Bus provider automatic and durable handling of Redelivery in case of message handling failure
through a Redelivery Policy
• Exponential Backoff
• Max retries
• Dead letter/Error Queue
Durable Queues

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Bus features
Notifications:
• Durable notifications with failover support
• bus.notify(notificationQueue, notificationMessage)
Notifications
Distributed
Broadcast
Broadcast:
• Broadcast a Message to all Services in the cluster
• Broadcast a Message to a UI client (all, per user, per privilege)

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Bus features
Single Instance Task:
• Ensures that only one Active instance of a Task is active in the cluster at one time
• Other tasks of the same type are in hot standby
• Used to e.g. group multiple subscribers, to ensure that all subscribers are either all
active or standby.
• Used by our ViewRepositories
Distributed
SingleInstanceTask
bus.createClusterSingleInstanceTask(”MyTask",
new MyTask ()); // Where MyTask implements Lifecycle

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Bus features
Process Manager
• Defines durable business processes
as a flow of Events
Sagas
Process Manager
Sales Service
Order Accepted
Billing Service
Order Fulfilment
(Saga/
Process-Manager)
Shipping Service
Order Accepted
Order Accepted
Customer Billed
Customer Billed
Order Approved
Order Approved

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Application features
Workflow Manager:
• Defines the Tasks that required human intervention, such as:
• Approvals (e.g. Contract approval)
• Assistance/Help with a business problem
• Incident handling (e.g. a technical problem identified by a developer)
• Authorization (e.g. request manager approval)
• Reminders
• Common tasks supported: Claiming Tasks, Escalating Tasks, Completing Tasks
Workflow Manager

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Event Monitoring
• One of the challenges with have Event based systems is to keep track
of where events are in the flow
• Why isn’t this system doing this?
• Did events go into an Error Queue?
• How can we reprocess them?
• Or why isn’t this happening?
• In general it’s the same issues we see with asynchronous systems and
integrations in general.
• The good thing about using Events is that they carry semantics and are not RPC
in hiding

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Event Monitoring
Command, Document and Event messages all contain the following
data:
• Timestamp
• Unique message Id
• Correlation Id
• Originating system (IP address, name, etc.)
• …
Event messages also need to describe the order in which the event
occurred. This can be implemented in many ways including:
• Ordering sequence number
• Event vectors
• Vector clocks
• Timestamp
• Etc.

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Event Monitoring
• We use the correlation id to be able to later correlate log
messages from different services

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Example monitoring of Processes

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