Explore event-driven services and their implementation using Apache Kafka and Kafka Streams in this 53-minute conference talk by Ben Stopford at Devoxx. Learn about various patterns for creating event-driven services, ranging from small functions to large, stateful applications. Discover how to leverage a streaming platform to build these services effectively. Gain insights into using distributed logs, the Kafka Streams API, and its transactional guarantees to construct robust event-driven architectures. Benefit from Stopford's extensive experience in distributed data infrastructure and his work on the Apache Kafka Core Team at Confluent Inc. Understand the advantages of event-driven services and how they can be applied to various scales of applications using Kafka's powerful ecosystem.