Event Bus Project

Event Bus Project Roadmap

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

Child pages

Outdated Notes

References

• Quick Start for Confluent Platform | Confluent Documentation

• Kafka Listeners – Explained | Confluent

• Set up a standalone Pulsar in Docker | Apache Pulsar

• OEP Draft: OEP-52 (DRAFT): docs: add OEP for event bus by feanil · Pull Request #233 · openedx/open-edx-proposals

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)

    • OEP-52 (DRAFT): docs: add OEP for event bus by feanil · Pull Request #233 · openedx/open-edx-proposals

  • 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