Event-driven Architecture - Extreme Loose Coupling and Well Distributed

Extreme Loose Coupling and Well Distributed

An event driven architecture is extremely loosely coupled and well distributed. The great distribution of this architecture exists because an event can be almost anything and exist almost anywhere. The architecture is extremely loosely coupled because the event itself doesn’t know about the consequences of its cause. e.g. If we have an alarm system that records information when the front door opens, the door itself doesn’t know that the alarm system will add information when the door opens, just that the door has been opened.

Event driven architectures have loose coupling within space, time and synchronization, providing a scalable infrastructure for information exchange and distributed workflows. However, event-architectures are tightly coupled, via event subscriptions and patterns, to the semantics of the underlying event schema and values. The high degree of semantic heterogeneity of events in large and open deployments such as smart cities and the sensor web makes it difficult to develop and maintain event-based systems. In order to address semantic coupling within event-based systems the use of approximate semantic matching of events is an active area of research.

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