1. Purpose of this Repo

Status

Accepted

Context

OEP-52 (Event Bus Architecture) describes an event bus for the Open EdX platform that allows for asynchronous messaging to improve both the efficiency and reliability of the event messaging system. This particular implementation of the event bus will use Kafka, although the event bus API should be technology agnostic (API will live in a separate package). Implementation details on how the configuration chooses which event bus to use is unspecified at this moment.

Decision

In this repository will reside the event bus kafka implementation as described by OEP-52.

Since event bus kafka will be the first implementation, we will use this event bus directly (API will be configured with kafka) and extract a more abstract API later.

Consequences

All event bus related code will be moved to this repository at first.