AI engineering glossary · MLOps, LLMOps cloud
What is event-driven architecture?
Event-driven architecture: A design in which components communicate by publishing and reacting to events, such as "file uploaded" or "order placed", rather than calling each other directly. It decouples services and suits asynchronous, scalable AI pipelines.
Event-driven architecture: an example
Uploading a scanned form to storage emits an event that triggers an OCR service, which emits another that triggers a classifier.
Related terms
- Message queue
- Serverless
- Webhook
- Asynchronous inference
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Where you learn it
Event-driven architecture is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.