Events vs commands in asynchronous communication

To summarize: In an event-driven architecture, components communicate asynchronously by sending each other event messages. Instead of having a component that commands other components and keeps track of the system’s overall state, each component that listens to an event knows exactly what to do when it occurs. The events drive the process. This architectural style […]

Building API Products: API First

In this blog series, I want to talk about the experiences I’ve made building an API product and the best practices I learned doing so. This first article is about how we approach API first design and how it helps us build better APIs and is intended for developers who want to build API products […]