- Event-based systems use events like data updates to trigger actions in real-time, while batch systems periodically process accumulated data
- Building distributed, event-based systems allows applications to scale horizontally by decomposing them into loosely coupled components that communicate asynchronously through messaging
- The publish-subscribe pattern is well-suited for event-based architectures, with systems like RabbitMQ providing message brokers that route events from publishers to subscriber queues based on topics