Teena Idnani, senior solutions architect at Microsoft, shares her experience on how and when to use event-driven architectures to improve the experience of your customers. She touches on when to use and not use this approach, as well as how to design your system, implement observability, and when to consider using more than one cloud vendor.

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Transcript

Understanding Event-Driven Architecture in a Multicloud Environment

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