On January 4th, I announced the tech word of the year was async.
Personally, I was prepared for a year of education on event-driven architectures. I was determined to go full-swing at work into 202 status codes and background processes.
The architectures I designed were loosely coupled and relied on EventBridge for service-to-service communication. I even wrote a full series on WebSockets demonstrating how to keep your UI updated while you wait for background tasks to run.
Needless to say, I was fully invested in the theme of the year. And I wasn’t the only one.
The serverless community was also focused on promoting asynchronous development. Over the course of the year, we had countless events, service announcements, blog posts, videos, and podcasts that all advocated for the benefits of async. Then, of course, we had the icing on the cake at re:Invent in Dr. Werner Vogel’s keynote.