Eliminate costly errors and improve your compliance with policies and regulations by establishing best practices and automating enterprise standards and access controls. Use metrics and KPIs to assess and improve your organization’s use and reuse of event streams.
Built-in Best Practices
Event Portal balances innovators’ freedom to create with the infrastructure team’s need to maintain control and consistency across your organization. It does so by guiding application teams toward best practices from the very start, in a way that lets the infrastructure team
Role-Based Access Controls
With role-based access control in PubSub+ Event Portal, manage user access to application domains efficiently, ensuring that resources are only accessible to individuals based on their specific roles and responsibilities. By granting access based on organizational roles, you can ensure that sensitive information and critical resources are protected from unauthorized access. Administrators can easily add or modify user roles, reducing the complexity and time required to manage user permissions across various application domains. Users are granted access only to the resources they need, based on their role, preventing unnecessary access to restricted domains.
Design-First Approach
Bring clarity to your system by assigning a domain to every functional area in your organization. This breaks your larger enterprise into bite-sized pieces for better access, control and focus.
Enterprise-Wide Naming Standards
Establishing enterprise-wide naming standards is essential to promote clarity and consistency across all applications and events. This includes ensuring that abbreviations and name value pairs carry uniform meanings throughout the organization, reducing ambiguity and misinterpretation. Secondly, assigning clear ownership and points of contact for every application and event ensures accountability and facilitates efficient communication during design and implementation phases.
Custom Attributes
Additionally, incorporating mandatory custom properties, such as labels for identifying protected information, helps enforce security and regulatory requirements consistently across the system.
Control Access to Events
Assign approvers for events who can grant or deny the access to developers and architects as they design and deploy applications that consume them.
By implementing these practices proactively, organizations can streamline operations, enhance transparency, and maintain compliance throughout their event-driven architectures.
Know the Current State of your Environments
Now that you’ve established those best practices, make sure everything is aligned. The audit capability of PubSub+ Event Portal plays a crucial role in maintaining governance and operational integrity across event brokers, regardless of their location. It detects discrepancies between configurations on the broker and the design intent and allows users to import updates the design from changes found on the broker.
By detecting changes made directly to the brokers, the audit capability provides authoritative verification of correct implementation according to design standards
Measure and Improve the Efficiency of your Event-Driven System
Having adhered to the above-mentioned best practices, it’s time to see if they’re paying off. When it comes to achieving clear returns on investments on event-driven systems, the most common questions are: which events are most used? Which events are neglected? And importantly, are we maximizing event reuse, or are we merely creating point-to-point connections?
API management introduced the concept of measuring API reuse via a valuable key performance indicator called the reuse index and PubSub+ Event Portal integrated these metrics into the event-driven realm. The reuse index emerged as a pivotal metric, for shared and for non-shared events. This Reuse Index KPI indicate the average number of times an event is reused across a single or set of application domains.
Stakeholders must focus on increasing the reuse index as evidence that events are effectively utilized, whether discovered through developer portals or the PubSub+ Event Portal, showcasing tangible returns from their event-driven system. Digging deeper, developers can analyze usage patterns of individual events across domains and broker types, empowering informed decisions on optimizing event exposure and documentation strategies to enhance overall effectiveness.
PubSub+ Event Portal offers a comprehensive solution to automate governance at both design time and runtime, addressing critical challenges faced by organizations in managing their event streaming assets. It not only enhances compliance and transparency but also fosters continuous improvement in event-driven architectures.
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