eventrouting
Event routing is the mechanism for directing events from producers to consumers within an event-driven architecture. It decouples producers from consumers by using a routing layer that applies rules to determine where an event should be delivered, enabling flexible and scalable data flows.
Key components include producers, a routing layer or message broker, routes or topics, and consumers. Events
Routing patterns encompass direct routing (one-to-one), fanout (one event delivered to multiple consumers), topic-based routing (routing
Use cases include microservices communication, real-time analytics, user activity tracking, and workflow triggering. Benefits of event
Common implementations are provided by message brokers and streaming platforms, such as RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka, NATS,
See also: event-driven architecture; publish-subscribe; message broker; streaming platform.