Event-driven architecture (EDA) patterns

With the emergence of legions of digitized items/smart objects/sentient materials, along with the scores of connected devices in our everyday environments, everyone is going to be significantly sagacious in his or her decisions, deeds, and deals. In the projected IoT world, a lot of decisive and deeper automation is bound to happen. Any tangible thing in our midst is internally as well as externally empowered in time to proactively and pre-emptively act on all kinds of noteworthy events. That is, every single entity in and around us is going to be event-driven. The role of IT in the projected event-driven world is paramount and path-breaking. The IT systems and business applications/services have to capture, buffer, process, mine, and analyze all incoming events to spit out insights. The days ahead are definitely digital, and our everyday...