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McDonald’s Event-Driven Architecture

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Overview

Think you know everything about McDonald's? What about its event-driven architecture?

McDonald's standardizes events using the following components:

  • Event Registry: An event registry to define a standardized schema.
  • Custom SDKs: Custom software development kits (SDKs) to process events and handle errors.
  • Event Gateway: An event gateway that performs identity authentication and authorization.
  • Utilities and Tools: Utilities and tools to fix events, keep the cluster healthy, and perform administrative tasks.

To scale event processing, McDonald uses a regional architecture that provides global availability based on AWS. Within a region, producers shard events by domains, and each domain is processed by an MSK cluster. The cluster auto-scales based on MSK metrics (e.g., CPU usage), and the auto-scale workflow is based on step-functions and re-assignment tasks.

Reference: Behind the scenes: [McDonald’s event-driven architecture](https://medium.com/mcdonalds-technical-blog/behind-the-scenes-mcdonalds-event-driven-architecture-51a6542c0d86)

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