Event Driven Architecture Custom Training Course

Day 1: Foundations of Event-Driven Architecture in Go

• Introduction to EDA
  • What is Event-Driven Architecture?
  • Comparing Monolithic, Microservices, and Event-Driven Systems
  • How Go’s concurrency model and lightweight goroutines make it ideal for EDA
• Core Concepts & Benefits
  • Decoupling, scalability, and resilience in enterprise systems
  • Defining Events, Producers, Consumers, and Event Brokers
  • Real-world examples and case studies where Go powers high-performance event systems
• CAP Theorem & Trade-offs in EDA
  • Overview of Consistency, Availability, and Partition Tolerance
  • Impact of EDA on these properties
  • Strategies for balancing consistency and availability in Go-based systems

Day 2: Events, Messages, and Communication Patterns in Go

• Understanding Event Types
  • Domain Events vs. Integration Events
  • Synchronous vs. Asynchronous events in Go applications
• Messaging Patterns in Practice
  • Publish-Subscribe (Pub/Sub) in Go 
  • How to design and structure event payloads using JSON, Protocol Buffers, or Avro in Go
• Implementing Event Handling in Go
  • Overview of popular Go libraries and frameworks for messaging 
  • Code examples: dispatching and processing events using idiomatic Go patterns
  • Hands-on session: Building a simple event-driven service in Go

Day 3: Messaging Systems & Event Brokers with Go

• Selecting and Integrating Event Brokers
  • Overview of popular brokers: Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, and NATS
  • Comparison of use cases and best practices for Go-based systems
• Setting Up Messaging Infrastructure
  • Docker Compose setup for Kafka, RabbitMQ, or NATS
  • Configuring topics, exchanges, queues, and channels
  • Go client libraries overview
• Hands-On Workshop
  • Building a sample Go microservice that produces and consumes events
  • Integrating the service with the chosen event broker
  • Debugging and testing event flows

Day 4: Deploying, Monitoring, and Advanced Topics in Go EDA

• Deploying Go Event-Driven Applications on Kubernetes
  • Containerizing Go applications for production
  • Deploying Kafka (or other brokers) on Kubernetes clusters
  • Introduction to KEDA (Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling) for scaling event consumers
• Error Handling and Monitoring
  • Handling event failures with strategies 
  • Implementing observability in Go services
• Advanced Topics & Q&A
  • Exploring Serverless Event-Driven Architectures with Go
  • Event Choreography vs. Orchestration: Use cases and design considerations
  • Common pitfalls, lessons learned, and best practices
  • Open Q&A session and interactive troubleshooting