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Building a Scalable Search Architecture

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As the databases professor at my university used to say, it depends. Using SQL to run your search might be enough for your use case, but as your project requirements grow and more advanced features are needed—for example, enabling synonyms, multilingual search, or even machine learning—your relational database might not be enough.

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Putting Events in Their Place with Dynamic Routing

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In the Apache Kafka ® world, this means that each of those microservice client applications subscribes to a common Kafka topic. Once this stream is created, the application may take any action on the events using the rich Kafka Streams API. In a microservices architecture, events drive microservice actions.

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Introducing Derivative Event Sourcing

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Consider your bank account: viewing it online, the first thing you notice is often the current balance. How many of us drill down to see how we got there? But what if you have more than one order service? In other words, sometimes you end up with more than one order service—enter derivative event sourcing!