DevOps Event Driven Architecture

Overview 🔍

Welcome to the Event-Driven Architecture Lab Series! 🚀

Over the next four labs, we'll build a simplified, yet powerful, feature inspired by platforms like Netflix: a movie "like" system with recommendations. This project serves as a practical vehicle to explore and implement core concepts of Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) using modern cloud services on AWS. We'll start with a user clicking "Like" and end with a dynamic recommendation page, all powered by an asynchronous, decoupled backend.

Purpose 🎯

The primary goal of this series is to provide hands-on experience with designing and building event-driven systems. You will learn:

How to decouple different parts of an application using event streams.
How to leverage serverless compute (AWS Lambda) for event processing.
How to use managed services like API Gateway, Kinesis, DynamoDB, and S3 effectively.
How to define and manage cloud infrastructure using Terraform (Infrastructure as Code).
The benefits of EDA, such as scalability, resilience, and extensibility.

Technology Stack 🛠️

Throughout this series, we will utilize:

Frontend: A simple UI container (details provided) with movie tiles and like buttons.
API Layer: AWS API Gateway for creating RESTful endpoints.
Compute: AWS Lambda for serverless event processing.
Event Streaming: AWS Kinesis Data Streams as our event bus.
Data Storage:
- AWS DynamoDB for storing and querying aggregated like counts.
- AWS S3 via Kinesis Data Firehose for archiving raw event data.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform for defining and deploying AWS resources.
Version Control: Git & GitHub for managing code.
(Optional CI/CD): GitHub Actions (or similar) could automate deployment, though manual deployment steps will be detailed.

By the end of this series, you'll have a functioning application demonstrating key EDA patterns and a solid understanding of how these cloud services work together. Let's get started ! 🎉

Part of this Project

DevOps Event Driven Architecture — Part 2

Free

DevOps Event Driven Architecture involves using event-driven frameworks to automatically initiate and manage various tasks and processes, enhancing responsiveness, scalability, and automation in software development and operations.

AWS Kinesis Lambda DynamoDB

DevOps Event Driven Architecture — Part 3

Free

This lab focuses on implementing and managing event-driven architecture within DevOps practices, emphasizing real-time data processing, microservices communication, and optimized workflow orchestration.

AWS Lambda Terraform

DevOps Event Driven Architecture — Part 4

Free

Learn about DevOps methodologies, focusing on event-driven architecture. Discover how to design and implement systems that react to real-time events, ensuring efficient and scalable operations.

AWS Lambda Terraform