What is Event Driven Architecture (EDA)?

What is an event-driven architecture, or EDA? And how does it enable real-time user interactions, pluggable microservices, and extensible streaming and data analytics? In this lightboard video, Whitney Lee from IBM Cloud, visually breaks down the answers to these questions and many more, as well as explains the several advantages and opportunities that an event driven architecture provides for developers and organizations in comparison to a request/response application architecture.