This is one of the best books I've come across in terms of event-driven services as it covers pretty much all the topics you need to consider when designing and developing this type of services。 I think it is the right book to read if you're on a learning path towards event-driven architectures， or are currently going through a build of one。 It's probably the first time I've found alot of the covered topics in a single book - most of the times， you could only find these scattered through a bunch This is one of the best books I've come across in terms of event-driven services as it covers pretty much all the topics you need to consider when designing and developing this type of services。 I think it is the right book to read if you're on a learning path towards event-driven architectures， or are currently going through a build of one。 It's probably the first time I've found alot of the covered topics in a single book - most of the times， you could only find these scattered through a bunch of blog posts， which makes going through and learning about EDAs much more structured。 Also， the author is not selling EDA as a silver-bullet and covers most or all of the pitfalls， caveats and failure modes you can find and suggests many ways to work through them。 You'll get all the warnings you'll need before treading those waters。 It's a great read， worth reading after Nygard's "Release It" and Newman's "Building Microservices" and a DDD book/video set （like Vernon's "Domain-Driven Design" distilled） as it builds on many of the ideas （i feel） were introduced in those。 I also feel that this book， based on the coverage quality of the topics， can become a key references in the industry， with an impact on readers similar to what Nyagrd's "Release It" had on me - it was my first contact with so many topics when I first read it like Circuit Breakers and Cascading Failures， that it had a strong impact on my thinking of system design。 Having gone through a build of an EDA with legacy migrations in the past 2 years， the contents match many of the learnings I had， including all the pitfalls， and would have been extremely useful if it had existed when I started。 If you're getting into EDA， you won't regret picking this one up。 。。。more