Introduction

It is now time to put into practice what we talked about in the previous two chapters. As the saying goes, before we can run, we must learn to walk, and before we can walk, we must learn to crawl. We were introduced to the MallBots application back in the “Introduction to Event-Driven Architectures” chapter, but before we can create that application, we must have a plan built on a better understanding of the problem the application intends to solve.

Chapter overview

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following main topics, as illustrated in the figure below: