event-driven architecture is a common pattern found alongside microservices and other decoupled services or apps. In an event-driven architecture,   each service in an ecosystem reacts and takes action upon an event it receives. There are   both upsides and downsides to event-driven architecture but before we get into that,   let’s look at an example of how event-driven architecture works so you know exactly what it is. Let’s say we have a standard e-commerce system that allows users to purchase a product on a website. when a purchase is […]