Designing event-driven applications and integrations often means coordinating across many teams and tools. Ideas end up scattered across spreadsheets, static diagrams and whiteboards, which makes it harder to keep designs consistent, up to date, and easy to understand. It also slows down onboarding when new developers have to piece together architecture from disconnected documentation.
Solace Event Portal brings all of this into one place with a low-code, graphical designer where developers, architects, SMEs, and business owners can collaborate on a shared view of the system. With visual enhancements like custom colors, icons, and logos, architectures are easier to read, explain, and share. Teams get a clear picture of how applications and events connect, and new developers can understand the full event=driven architecture (EDA) faster.
Here are some of the capabilities of Event Portal that help you design, visualize, document, and manage your event-driven components more efficiently.
Visualize your Event-Driven System
Whether you’re starting from scratch or updating your EDA as your business grows, you need clarity on what applications exist, which is the latest and most relevant version of them, and how they interact with each other.
Solace Event Portal gives you a clear, visual view of your event-driven system so teams can understand which applications exist, how they interact via published and subscribed to events, and which versions are deployed in which environments.
Boundaries for Clear Structure
Assign application domains to define ownership, user access control, and structure across your organization. This breaks large systems into manageable areas and helps teams focus on what they own. Within a domain, developers have the freedom to bounce ideas off each other as they perfect the design, often before sharing event data outside of the application domain.
Version Control
Use semantic versioning to track changes to applications, events and their payload schemas so teams can test safely while keeping production stable. Each time any of the objects in your EDA – applications, events, schemas, etc., – is updated, they can be saved as a new version and this version can also be assigned to one of the lifecycle states – draft, released, deprecated, retired. Versioning lets you update and test objects in a development environment while keeping the previous version in production.
Dependency Mapping
See how applications, events, and schemas depend on each other so teams can understand impact before making changes and avoid unexpected breakages. This holistic view helps prevent unexpected issues, improves system reliability, and facilitates more informed decision-making.
Collaborate your Way to Success
Event-driven systems are built by many teams. Without a shared space, designs become fragmented and hard to maintain and event data gets siloed and hard to discover and reuse across an organization. Event Portal gives everyone one place to collaborate on consistent, implementable designs.
Solace Event Portal tackles this challenge by providing a collaborative space where all the stakeholders can work together in shaping their ideas into implementable designs.
Event Storming using a GUI
Brainstorm and design your event-driven system in Event Portal’s graphical designer – the drag-and-drop canvas in Solace Event Portal. Teams can model applications, events, and event-driven webhooks directly in one place, making it easy to connect their home grown applications and other systems via events using visual flows. Developers and architects can quickly define which applications publish and consume events, refine interactions together, and keep designs clear, consistent, and ready for implementation.
Encourage Event Reuse
When designing event-driven systems, the optimal solution involves a mix of events from both within and outside the application domain. Event Portal simplifies this process by allowing you to pick and choose events from various sources. Reuse existing events across application domains to reduce duplication and improve efficiency. Higher reuse is a strong indicator of a healthy event-driven system.
Enrich Information with Custom Attributes
Use custom attributes to add business context to applications, events, and schemas, making them easier to find, understand, and describe. Enriching the EDA object metadata with attributes custom to your business and operational processes makes it easier for everyone in your organization to categorize, search for, and understand these objects.
Bring your Designs to Life
Once you and your team have designed the choreography of your event data flows between applications and the code generated event-driven interface part of the applications that interface with the brokers, it’s time to add the business logic. Code generation is a crucial part of this stage of the development cycle that enables organizations to leap from interface definition to implementation without mountains of laborious manual coding.
AsyncAPI Code Generation
Focus on business logic, not repetitive code, with automatic scaffolding generation for various development environments. Every application in Event Portal can be represented by an AsyncAPI. With just two clicks, you can export the application interfaces as an industry standard AsyncAPI spec. This AsyncAPI then gets fed directly into a code generator or a AI-assisted IDE, like Claude Code, eliminating the need for manual coding from scratch and reducing the risk of mistakes. AsyncAPI specs can also be accessed directly from AI-assisted IDEs using the Event Portal MCP Server, reducing context switching and speeding up development workflows.
Generate Code Within your Existing Tooling
Extend and customize integrations to perfectly suit your needs – be it code gen for iPaaS tools like Boomi, Mulesoft or SAP or custom applications that use a more Java oriented approach, like Spring. The event-driven interface data and broker configuration in Event Portal provides multiple options for developing spec-based coding.
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Designing, visualizing, documenting, and managing event-driven applications can be challenging. Solace Event Portal simplifies this process, enhancing collaboration and efficiency. If you’re ready to simplify the way you design your event-driven system, try Solace Event Portal for free today!
