--- title: Event-Driven Architecture Full Course: Beginner to Advanced description: This full course walks through event-driven architecture using a single running example: a video-upload platform. It starts with a synchronous design where the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/dhsbram9k twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Event-Driven Architecture Full Course: Beginner to Advanced | daily.dev og:description: This full course walks through event-driven architecture using a single running example: a video-upload platform. It starts with a synchronous design where the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/dhsbram9k og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/DhsBRam9K.png og:image:alt: Post cover image og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Event-Driven Architecture Full Course: Beginner to Advanced **[Joud Awad](https://daily.dev/sources/iac4jsbu0lv8wbsc85fsh)** · [@joudawad](https://daily.dev/joudawad) · 412 upvotes · 24 comments ## Summary This full course walks through event-driven architecture using a single running example: a video-upload platform. It starts with a synchronous design where the upload service calls each service in order, showing that it takes four minutes total and fails entirely if the captions service is down. It then rebuilds the system with events, covering the difference between events, commands and queries, the CloudEvents envelope format, and broker types: queues, logs and routers (with examples like Kafka, SQS, SNS and EventBridge). It closes with failure handling topics like duplicate delivery, ordering, dead-letter queues and idempotency. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@jad85** · 18 upvotes > You are a legend man, this is an incredible amount of work that has been done in this video 🙏 such a great topic and great animation! **@epicuser** · 6 upvotes > Wohooo, a great way to start the week such an incredible topic to dig into! way to go man 👏 **@cpkxwdev** · 4 upvotes > really slick how you used rust‑wasm edge functions to drive the animation, the low latency makes the visuals pop. love the incremental build pipeline you showed that keeps the dev loop tight **@harshitmanepally** · 4 upvotes > If possible can you share resources on how to learn system design? **@yxssxr** · 4 upvotes > This is Amazing! > >  ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Event-Based Architectures in JavaScript: A Handbook for Devs](https://daily.dev/posts/event-based-architectures-in-javascript-a-handbook-for-devs-cbheqm4xn) · freeCodeCamp · 14 upvotes · 0 comments - [The Complete Guide to Message Queues and Event Streaming: Building Scalable, Reliable, and Real-Time Distributed Systems](https://daily.dev/posts/the-complete-guide-to-message-queues-and-event-streaming-building-scalable-reliable-and-real-time-72zillsk8) · Medium · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Event-Driven Patterns for Cloud-Native Banking: Lessons from What Works and What Hurts](https://daily.dev/posts/event-driven-patterns-for-cloud-native-banking-lessons-from-what-works-and-what-hurts-fppj6rmcq) · InfoQ · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Event-Driven Architecture with Spring Boot and AWS EventBridge: Escaping the Distributed Monolith](https://daily.dev/posts/event-driven-architecture-with-spring-boot-and-aws-eventbridge-escaping-the-distributed-monolith-vut2syvqf) · Sergio Lema · 49 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#career](https://daily.dev/tags/career), [#architecture](https://daily.dev/tags/architecture), [#distributed-systems](https://daily.dev/tags/distributed-systems), [#kafka](https://daily.dev/tags/kafka) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/dhsbram9k) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https://daily.dev/posts/dhsbram9k","headline":"Event-Driven Architecture Full Course: Beginner to Advanced","text":"Shared: Event-Driven Architecture Full Course: Beginner to Advanced","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/dhsbram9k","datePublished":"2026-10-12T15:02:16.312Z","dateModified":"2026-10-12T15:03:11.096Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Joud Awad","url":"https://daily.dev/joudawad","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--dOB9RaXY--/f_auto/v1773320801/avatars/avatar_iaC4JsBU0lV8wBsc85fSh?_a=BAMAMiiu0","description":"Principal Solution Architecture ","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Metalab","logo":"https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=metalab.com\u0026sz=128"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"EndorseAction"},"userInteractionCount":87040}},"image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--CxzD6vbw--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2005","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":411},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":24}],"sharedContent":{"@type":"WebPage","url":"https://api.daily.dev/r/TY0uOqUhH"},"comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"You are a legend man, this is an incredible amount of work that has been done in this video 🙏 such a great topic and great animation!","datePublished":"2026-10-12T15:30:25.337Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/DhsBRam9K#c-vIqHR2P4W","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Jad","url":"https://daily.dev/jad85"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":18}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Wohooo, a great way to start the week such an incredible topic to dig into! 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