Build your real-time bridge to the cloud with Confluent Platform 7.0 and Cluster Linking | Read the blog Contact Us GET STARTED FREE Event-Driven Microservices Communication Microservices architectures enable organizations to evolve their systems away from slow, unresponsive shared-state architectures of the past. Confluent provides a data in motion platform for seamless data flow and real-time microservices communication between all your apps, systems, and data stores. Learn more about event-driven microservices architecture with the complete guide. GET STARTED FREE LEARN MORE MICROSERVICES COMMUNICATION EVENT-DRIVEN HOW CONFLUENT WORKS THE CONFLUENT ADVANTAGE RESOURCES From Monolith to Microservices Why Microservices? Microservice architectures allow applications to be built as a collection of small, independent, autonomous services with asynchronous communication. Because they’re highly maintainable, lightweight, and testable, they provide the ideal architecture for agile, flexible, and scalable development across different organizational constraints. Challenges with Microservices A large application delivered as a network of small microservices requires real-time inter-service communication to function as a single application. As the number of microservices increases, this architecture becomes even more challenging, introducing requirements around continuous integration and delivery, scalability, and resiliency without increasing latency, network, and processing costs. Effective Inter-Service Communication While there are numerous microservices communication solutions, event-driven microservices provides the most seamless and decoupled separation of concerns, increasing the agility of your business while making your data accessible to customers and users. A Scalable Foundation for the Event-Driven Architecture Microservices architectures enable organizations to evolve their systems away from the slow and unresponsive shared-state architectures of the past. Confluent provides an event streaming platform for incorporating data in flight into a lightweight, efficient, and responsive microservices architecture. Confluent is the backbone for event driven services. WATCH VIDEO Building Services using a Data in Motion Platform Embrace Event-Based thinking with an infrastructure built to handle streaming events Create a shared source of truth from event-stream datasets Join and process events created by any service, in any location Scale to support 1,000s of services Get Seamless Event-Driven Microservices with Confluent Confluent modernizes any system with an event-driven architecture. The second an event happens, services update data in real-time for seamless integration, data consistency, and scalable, responsive microservices orchestration. Scale the Organization Event-driven microservices architecture allows decoupled systems from different business units to work together with minimal coordination. Cost-Efficiency Free up engineers and IT from endless monitoring, configurations, and maintenance. Save on development costs and improve organizational efficiency. Real-Time Event Streams Facilitate real-time, inter-service communication and event streaming without sacrificing data quality, consistency, or security. Modernize with Agility Seamless inter-service communication between containers and applications help your org deliver maximum value without undue dependence on monolithic, legacy systems. Broad Data Integration Integrate data regardless where it resides - on-prem data silos, mainframes, cloud services, or serverless infrastructure. Infinite Scale Future-proof your infrastructure to meet and manage current, future, and peak data volumes with full security, resiliency, and scalability. How Confluent Works A single source of truth for all your services, data, apps, and systems Application architecture is shifting from monolithic enterprise systems to flexible, event-driven approaches. With Confluent, real-time data can be consumed as continuous streams of data before they’re even requested. Confluent's ability to ingest, integrate, and react to in-stream events extends capabilities beyond other microservice communication, application integration, and streaming data platforms. The Confluent Advantage Cloud-Native Apache Kafka A streaming platform that acts as a central nervous system for your entire organization. Leverage all-inclusive data streams and focus on business logic that generates value. Schema Registry Increase developer productivity and agility. Upgrade consumers and producers with new data formats while preserving existing contract agreements. ksqlDB Scalable, elastic, fault tolerant, atomic and simple stream processing for microservices communications. Powerful in-flight data transforms ensure interoperability between services. Apache Kafka for Microservices: A Confluent Online Talk Series This three-part online talk series introduces key concepts, use cases and best practices for getting started with microservices. WATCH THE SERIES Start Your Free Trial CONFLUENT CLOUD Fully managed service Fully managed, cloud-native service for Apache Kafka Deploy in minutes. Pay as you go. Available everywhere your data needs to be. GET STARTED FREE Learn More Learn more about microservices, event-driven architecture, real-time event streaming, and getting started with our microservices solutions. Technical Resources Event-Driven Microservices Architecture [White Paper] Designing Event-Driven Systems [Free E-Book] Automated Event-Driven Architectures and Microservices with Apache Kafka and SmartBear [Podcast] Blog Using Apache Kafka as a Scalable, Event-Driven Backbone for Service Architectures Building a Microservices Ecosystem with Kafka Streams and KSQL Why Event-First Programming Changes Everything More blog posts on microservices Docs Introduction to Event Streaming Application Development Integrate Data and External Systems with Pre-Built Connectors Ready to build your microservices architecture? We can help. 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