# Building an Event-Driven Architecture with Managed Data Services

DevFeed: [Building an Event-Driven Architecture with Managed Data Services](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/building-an-event-driven-architecture-with-managed-data-services-26385.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.heroku.com/blog/building-event-driven-architecture-managed-data-services/>)

Author: Jonathan Brown

Published: 2024-08-15T01:52:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Heroku](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/heroku.md>)

Topics: [event driven](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/event-driven.md>), [Kafka](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kafka.md>), [data-processing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-processing.md>), [Microservice](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/microservice.md>), [Heroku](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/heroku.md>), [Scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/scalability.md>), [Architecture & Design](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/architecture-design.md>)

Tags: [apache-kafka](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apache-kafka.md>), [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud-infrastructure.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [data-processing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-processing.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [event-driven](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/event-driven.md>), [heroku](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/heroku.md>), [kafka](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kafka.md>), [microservices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/microservices.md>), [product-features](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product-features.md>), [scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scalability.md>), [services](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/services.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains event-driven architecture for applications that process real-time data through decoupled microservices and components. It introduces Apache Kafka and discusses how Apache Kafka on Heroku can support reliable, scalable event-driven applications, along with core concepts such as events, topics, and producers.

## Source excerpt

Modern applications have an unceasing buzz of user activity and data flows. Users send a flurry of one-click reactions to social media posts. Wearable tech and other IoT sensors work nonstop to transmit event data from their environments. Meanwhile, customers on e-commerce sites perform shopping cart actions or product searches which can bring immediate impact [...] The post Building an Event-Driven Architecture with Managed Data Services appeared first on Heroku.