A software design in which services communicate by publishing and reacting to events, such as an order being placed, as they happen.
Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) decouples systems and enables asynchronous, real-time data mobilization. Instead of waiting on batch jobs, AI systems in an EDA consume continuous event streams from platforms such as Kafka or EventBridge, so predictive models can react to factory floor anomalies or financial market shifts as they occur.
See also Data Mobilization, Data Lakehouse and Vector Database.