Modern applications have an unceasing buzz of user activity and data flows. Users send a flurry of one-click reactions to social media posts. Wearable tech and other IoT sensors work nonstop to transmit event data from their environments. Meanwhile, customers on e-commerce sites perform shopping cart actions or product searches which can bring immediate impact to operations. Today’s software organizations need the ability to process and respond to this rich stream of real-time data. That’s why they adopt an event-driven architecture (EDA) for their applications. Long gone are the days of monolithic applications with components tightly coupled into a single, bloated piece of software. That approach leads to scalability issues, slower development cycles, and complex maintenance.…