Episode description

Neil Avery explores the intersection between FaaS and event streaming applications before taking a quick detour back in time to understand how we've gotten to this point in event-driven applications. He'll explain the pros and cons of FaaS, and cover how in its current state cold starts and latency concerns need to be part of the bigger picture when building streaming applications. Finally, Neil shares five rules that will help you understand how FaaS fits with the event streaming application.

EPISODE LINKS

• Journey to Event Driven – Part 1: Why Event-First Thinking Changes Everything
• Journey to Event Driven – Part 2: Programming Models for the Event-Driven Architecture
• Journey to Event Driven – Part 3: The Affinity Between Events, Streams and Serverless
• Journey to Event Driven – Part 4: Four Pillars of Event Streaming Microservices