Building resilient event-driven architectures

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United Airlines migrates PSS mainframe capabilities into an event-driven system that uses Amazon MSK, Solace event mesh, DynamoDB, EKS/ECS, API Gateway, Secrets Manager and AWS KMS to secure data. The team follows a strangler pattern and micro-account template, handles 1.7 million flights of state and peaks like 8.5 million daily seat map views, replicates Kafka with MSK Replicator for cross-region failover, and adds client-side field encryption (Encryption SDK / CloudFront) to protect sensitive fields while enabling real-time downstream consumption.

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1. 0:00Introduction to EDA
2. 4:17Event-driven patterns
3. 8:51Governance and account models
4. 13:03Resiliency and disaster recovery
5. 17:46Data protection in EDA
6. 37:26United Airlines case study

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