Event Horizon: A Path to Mass Event-Driven Architecture Adoption - Solace

The Challenge: EDA is Hard to Adopt Today

Despite the widely recognized value of event-driven interactions, many architects and developers continue to use synchronous, RESTful request/reply interactions for all communications between applications. This is in large part because REST is supported and surrounded by a robust developer community, API specifications, development frameworks, and tools such as code generators which don’t exist in the area of events and event-driven applications. Event Horizon represents Solace’s commitment from Solace to address this.

Here’s a glimpse into our thinking:

Why is it so difficult to develop event-driven applications today?

Replicating the Success of REST in Event-Driven Architecture

To unlock the power and potential of event-driven architectures, enterprises need:

An easy way to stream and manage events across distributed enterprises
Thought leadership and hands-on tips for designing event-driven microservices, APIs and architectures
Key commercial vendors collaborating to enable event-driven integration across proprietary applications, services and equipment
A vibrant and open community contributing code, developing frameworks, and sharing learnings across domains and use cases

Event Horizon is meeting these needs through four initiatives:

Investing in EDA product innovation
Nurturing global EDA community-building through education, networking and thought leadership
Building a coalition of vendor partners united in enabling event-driven systems at enterprise scale
Advancing the state of open source projects

January 18, 2023

Launch of Distributed Tracing Capability Headlines Latest Solace Event Horizon Initiative Updates

New developments in product, partner, education and community-building promise to make it easier for global enterprises to adopt and benefit from event-driven architecture.

October 4, 2022

Solace Launches Event Portal 2.0, Addressing the Biggest Challenges Enterprises Face in Designing, Managing and Governing Event-Driven Architecture at Scale

Latest release transforms the way architects and developers design, lifecycle manage, and govern event-driven APIs and applications across a variety of brokers, including Solace, Apache Kafka, Confluent and Amazon MSK.

January 18, 2022

Solace Announces Latest Advances in Event Horizon Initiative, including Expansion of EDA Summit Program

New developments in product, partner, education and community-building underpin pledge to make it easier for global enterprises to adopt and benefit from event-driven architecture.

January 18, 2022

Progress on the Path to the “Horizon” of Event-Driven Architecture

In June of 2019, Solace took aim at making it easier for enterprises to benefit from event-driven architecture with the announcement of a strategic initiative called Event Horizon – so named because we believed we were skating to where the puck was going to be, as my hockey hero Wayne Gretzky famously advised.

Event-Driven Architecture Takes Center Stage at EDA Summit on May 19, 2021

EDA Summit is the first global event devoted to the advancement of event-driven architecture (EDA) in business.

August 24, 2020

Solace Announces First Tool Capable of Discovering, Cataloging, and Visualizing Apache Kafka Topologies

New capabilities added to PubSub+ Event Portal give developers and architects a single place where they can manage the lifecycle of Apache Kafka event streams.

Solace’s New Event Management Portal Simplifies Event-Driven Architecture

First-of-its-Kind “Event Portal” Enables Collaborative Creation, Sharing and Management of Events and Event-Driven Applications

October 3, 2019

Solace Partners with Boomi to Accelerate Enterprise Adoption of Event-Driven Architecture

New Initiative Brings Together Enterprise Integration and Real-Time Event Streaming and Distribution.

Aiming at the Horizon: How Solace is Enabling the Age of Events

If you look at the world of API-led applications, you’ll find all kinds of platforms, tools and know how that help you build and run them – portals and platforms and tools that just don’t exist in the event-driven arena. With Event Horizon we’re packaging up everything we’ve built and learned over the last 15 years to provide all of the technology, tools and know-how it takes to accelerate and simplify the development of event-driven applications.

Solace Launches “Event Horizon” Initiative to Simplify Development and Operation of Event-Driven Applications

Sweeping set of new products, partnerships and community-building efforts will make it easier for enterprises to benefit from event-driven architecture