Event-Driven Architecture: Uncle Explains Like You're Five 👦👨‍🦳 (opens in new tab)

A conversation between Uncle (a backend architect) and Nephew (a curious developer) about events, publishers, subscribers, Redis Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ, and Kafka The Beginning: What is an Event? 👦 Nephew: Uncle, I see words like "Redis Pub/Sub", "RabbitMQ", "Kafka" everywhere in job descriptions. What do they all do? Are they the same thing? 👨‍🦳 Uncle: (smiles) No, they're different. But before I confuse you with names, let me ask you something. Have you ever watched the news on TV? 👦 Nephew: Yes...