Event Bus Project

Event Bus Project Roadmap

See https://github.com/openedx/platform-roadmap/issues/28

Child pages

Outdated Notes

References

• https://docs.confluent.io/platform/current/quickstart/ce-docker-quickstart.html

• https://www.confluent.io/blog/kafka-listeners-explained/

• https://pulsar.apache.org/docs/en/standalone-docker/

• OEP Draft: https://github.com/edx/open-edx-proposals/pull/233

Discovery Work

The following high-level items will be worked on in parallel to the extent they enable each other.

• Document: Draft OEP

  • Explaining higher level need. (IN PROGRESS)

    • https://github.com/edx/open-edx-proposals/pull/233

  • Draft child ADR choosing a technology.

• Implement:

  • Milestone 1: POC of basics working in devstack

    • Schemas

  • Milestone 2: Optional event to production (IN PROGRESS)

    • Development: Error Handling, Data Liberation, Dead Letter Queues, Retries, Use Cases, etc. as-needed.

    • Hosting: Scaling, Monitoring, Schemas, etc. (Some schedule risk with vendor approval.)

  • Milestone 3: Onboarding docs, Limited new optional events

    • Enable additional squads; limited onboarding

      • Event Bus Use Cases for notes on possible next events

    • Events will be optional for Nutmeg to allow community time to get ramped up

    • Sandboxes or Edge?

  • Milestone 4: Event bus required

    • Events can be required for Olive. Community must have a solution.

• Educate: (IN PROGRESS)

  • Education directly related to events, crafting OEP, and trialing technology

  • Event-Driven Architecture Book Club

  • Onboarding documentation