2018 Architecture Mainstream
Event-Driven Model
What Gartner Predicted
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Business events would be detected and acted upon in real time, with event-driven architecture becoming central to digital business strategy.
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Prediction Accuracy
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Event-driven architecture with Kafka was already well-established by 2018 (LinkedIn created Kafka in 2011). Observing an existing trend, not predicting one. 'Real-time event processing' overstates what most enterprises actually do.