An Intellyx Brain Candy Brief
Asynchronous interactions and more broadly, event-driven architectural patterns like publish/subscribe have been with us for decades – but the request/reply pattern is so engrained in our thinking that organizations struggle with the more general world of events.
With the rise of the IoT and other real-time streaming technologies, coupled with the rapid adoption of the Kubernetes container orchestration platform, event-driven approaches are becoming increasingly critical for a wide range of cloud-native use cases.
Solace is driving innovation in such areas with its event brokers. Solace delivers these brokers in hardware appliance, software, and cloud-based ‘as-a-Service’ form factors for broad deployment across the hybrid IT landscape.
Once in place, Solace’s event brokers create an ‘event mesh,’ an event-driven abstraction of the full range of dynamic endpoints, similar to the way a service mesh like Istio (along with the Envoy proxy) does for RESTful microservices endpoints in Kubernetes clusters.
In reality, there shouldn’t be a distinction between event and service meshes, as the purpose of such meshes is to abstract everything about the endpoints, including their interaction patterns.
Be that as it may, today’s service meshes rely too heavily on request/reply interactions, and thus Solace’s event meshes are a necessary addition to modern cloud-native architectures.
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