Event-Driven Architecture with Go Training Course

Day 1: Foundations of Event-Driven Architecture in Go

• Introduction to EDA
  • Defining Event-Driven Architecture
  • Contrasting Monolithic, Microservices, and Event-Driven System Models
  • Why Go's concurrency model and lightweight goroutines are well-suited for EDA
• Core Concepts & Advantages
  • Achieving decoupling, scalability, and resilience in enterprise environments
  • Defining key roles: Events, Producers, Consumers, and Event Brokers
  • Real-world case studies demonstrating Go's role in high-performance event systems
• CAP Theorem & Trade-offs in EDA
  • Overview of Consistency, Availability, and Partition Tolerance
  • The impact of EDA on these distributed system properties
  • Strategies for balancing consistency and availability in Go-based architectures

Day 2: Events, Messages, and Communication Patterns in Go

• Understanding Event Types
  • Distinguishing between Domain Events and Integration Events
  • Comparing Synchronous vs. Asynchronous events in Go applications
• Messaging Patterns in Practice
  • Implementing Publish-Subscribe (Pub/Sub) models in Go
  • Designing and structuring event payloads using JSON, Protocol Buffers, or Avro in Go
• Implementing Event Handling in Go
  • Survey of popular Go libraries and frameworks for messaging
  • Code demonstrations: Dispatching and processing events using idiomatic Go patterns
  • Practical session: Constructing a simple event-driven service in Go

Day 3: Messaging Systems & Event Brokers with Go

• Selecting and Integrating Event Brokers
  • Overview of leading brokers: Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, and NATS
  • Comparing use cases and best practices for Go-based implementations
• Setting Up Messaging Infrastructure
  • Configuring Docker Compose for Kafka, RabbitMQ, or NATS
  • Managing topics, exchanges, queues, and channels
  • Overview of Go client libraries
• Hands-On Workshop
  • Building a sample Go microservice capable of producing and consuming events
  • Integrating the service with the selected event broker
  • Debugging and validating event flows

Day 4: Deploying, Monitoring, and Advanced Topics in Go EDA

• Deploying Go Event-Driven Applications on Kubernetes
  • Containerizing Go applications for production readiness
  • Deploying Kafka (or alternative brokers) on Kubernetes clusters
  • Introducing KEDA (Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling) for scaling event consumers
• Error Handling and Monitoring
  • Addressing event failures using robust strategies
  • Implementing observability within Go services
• Advanced Topics & Q&A
  • Exploring Serverless Event-Driven Architectures with Go
  • Event Choreography vs. Orchestration: Analyzing use cases and design considerations
  • Identifying common pitfalls, sharing lessons learned, and reviewing best practices
  • Open Q&A session and interactive troubleshooting exercises