Building Event-Driven Microservices Ch 6, 2021-12-15

Chapter 6: Deterministic Stream Processing

• Determinism with Event-Driven Workflows

• Timestamps

  • Synchronizing Distributed Timestamps

  • Processing with Timestamped Events

• Event Scheduling and Deterministic Processing

  • Custom Event Schedulers

  • Processing Based on Event Time, Processing Time, and Ingestion Time

  • Timestamp Extraction by the Consumer

  • Request-Response Calls to External Systems

• Watermarks

  • Watermarks in Parallel Processing

• Stream Time

  • Stream Time in Parallel Processing

• Out-of-Order and Late-Arriving Events

  • Late Events with Watermarks and Stream Time

  • Causes and Impacts of Out-of-Order Events

  • Time-Sensitive Functions and Windowing

    • Tumbling windows

    • Sliding windows

    • Session windows

• Handling Late Events

• Reprocessing Versus Processing in Near-Real Time

• Intermittent Failures and Late Events

• Producer/Event Broker Connectivity Issues

• Summary and Further Reading