The Hidden Unity of APIs and Event Streams

Part of the Our Connected Universe specialist track

You might have heard of event-driven architecture - that's the hot new way of integrating your systems using streaming messages and loosely-couple publish/subscribe. You've probably heard of APIs, that's the "old" way of integrating your systems using request/reply messages. You might be asking, which one should I use? The answer is both! APIs and events are complementary to each other and are deeply connected in the architecture of your domain. This talk will provide ways to think about your domain design, about APIs and events. The insight will help you to design better systems.

Saul Caganoff He/Him • @scaganoff

Saul has long been interested in the challenges posed by complex and distributed information systems in large enterprises and how those systems can be simplified and transformed into composable assets delivering real business value. Saul has been working with APIs and microservices for the last 10 years. Saul enjoys speaking and writing about technology. He has worked as an editor at InfoQ and has been organising the APIdays Australia conference since 2015.