At some point, we’ve all sat in an architecture meeting where someone asks, “Should this be an event? An RPC? A queue?”, or “How do we tie this process together across our microservices? Should it be event-driven? Maybe a workflow orchestration?” Cue a flurry of opinions, whiteboard arrows, and vague references to sagas. Now that I work for a streaming data infra vendor, I get asked: “How do event-driven architecture, stream processing, orchestration, and the new durable execution...
