Understanding ops in an event-driven architecture

Let's review the most important task of ops once more: keeping services up and running. To enable this, we have defined a number of processes that help manage systems. Incident and problem management are key processes; that is, in IT4IT terms, detect to correct. The issue is that incident management is almost by default reactive: an issue is detected and actions are triggered to find and fix the issue. In the next phase, typically in problem management, a deeper analysis is done, where solutions are designed to prevent the issue from happening again.

Event management is a component of operations. The challenge in a digital operating model is to orchestrate and automate these events across different IT systems and even platforms. The event-driven architecture addresses this and is actually the starting point of AIOps. We will discuss this in more detail in Chapter 8, Architecting AIOps.

The event-driven architecture was originally...