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dev-site.yml

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 site:
   title: Solution Patterns for Cloud Native Architectures (Dev Mode)  
   url: http://localhost:3000/
-  start_page: solution-pattern-template::index.adoc
+  start_page: solution-pattern-event-mesh-for-microservices::index.adoc
 
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documentation/antora.yml

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-name: solution-pattern-template
-title: Template Tutorial
+name: solution-pattern-event-mesh-for-microservices
+title: Event Mesh For Applications 
 version: master
 nav:
   - modules/ROOT/nav.adoc

documentation/modules/ROOT/pages/01-pattern.adoc

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 == The story behind this solution pattern
 
-A description of the story that was used to build the demo and architectures of this SP.
+Cabs is a fictional transportation company. Engineers at Cabs were struggling
+with their transactional-style, monolith application. They recently
+started an effort to modernize it.
+
+The team saw a recent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc5IO6S6ZOk[talk on _Event Mesh_].
+The talk presented the advantages of moving beyond transactional architectures
+in favor of eventual consistency. By leveraging event meshes with technologies
+like Knative, developers can achieve decoupled, reliable microservices without
+extensive re-engineering. This solution addresses inefficiencies and aligns
+distributed systems with real-world business processes. The team had figured
+out they could leverage the _CQRS_ pattern together with _Knative's Event Mesh_
+to modernize their application in a non-extrusive way.
 
 == The Solution
 
-This is a summary of the solution
+The core of this solution is an event mesh—a dynamic, flexible layer that
+routes, retries, and processes asynchronous events across distributed 
+components. Using _Knative Eventing_ and _CloudEvents_, this pattern enables:
+
+ * *Reliable delivery* of events with retry mechanisms.
+ * Simplified *asynchronous workflows*.
+ * *Decoupling* of services to improve scalability, testability and resilience.
+
+The approach of Cabs engineering team is to extract well-defined services, using
+the _CQRS_ pattern to  identify _Commands_ from _Queries_, and model the 
+_Commands_ as _Events_. Those events will be routed to the _Event Mesh_ with 
+regular _HTTP_ messages. The _CloudEvents_ library ensures the proper 
+serialization of the events to and from the _HTTP_ messages. The _Event Mesh_
+will  handle not only the persistence of the events in-flight, but also all the
+required logic of retry in case of endpoint failure.

documentation/modules/ROOT/pages/_attributes.adoc

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 :experimental:
-:source-highlighter: highlightjs
+:source-highlighter: highlightjs

documentation/modules/ROOT/pages/developer-resources.adoc

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 :doctype: book
 
 
-= Developer Resources
+== Developer Resources
 
 * Add link to the git repo of the code
 * Add links to whitepapers, ebooks, learning paths, product pages

documentation/modules/ROOT/pages/index.adoc

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-= Solution Patterns: Template Name
+= Building Apps around the Event Mesh
 :page-layout: home
 :sectnums:
 :sectlinks:
 :doctype: book
 
-A brief introduction of this solution pattern.
+Understanding how to structure an application can be challenging. Different
+architectural patterns often lack insight into how to build day-to-day solutions
+that are often at least as complex as the business they operate in. 
 
-_Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum_
+This solution pattern is written to make it obvious and to show simple, yet
+elegant, correct, and comprehensive way of building software, either in
+greenfield or even in legacy projects. This solution leverages the
+https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/cloud-computing/openshift/serverless[Red Hat Serverless]
+Eventing component, which implements the https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/integration/what-is-an-event-mesh[Event Mesh] pattern.
 
-*Contributors:* _Your Name(s) here (can add links to your profile)_
+*Contributors:* https://github.com/cardil[Chris Suszynski]
 
 ++++
  <br>
 ++++
 [NOTE]
 ====
-Solutions Patterns help you understand the art of the possible with Red Hat's portfolio, and not intended to be used as is for production environments. You are welcome use any part of this solution pattern for your own workloads.
+Solution Patterns help you understand the art of the possible with Red Hat's 
+portfolio, and not intended to be used as is for production environments. You
+are welcome to use any part of this solution pattern for your own workloads.
 ====
 [#use-cases]
 == Use cases
 
-Common use cases that can be address with this architecture are:
+Event mesh pattern simplifies the operational complexity of distributed 
+applications, making architectures more resilient and scalable.
 
-- xyz
-- xyz
+Common use cases that can be addressed with this architecture include:
+
+- *Correctness* and *consistency* across distributed applications and services, 
+  without the hassles of _Event Sourcing_.
+- *Modernising* legacy applications by extracting smaller *microservices* into a 
+  distributed and eventually consistent system.
+- *Enabling communication* with external services, that can be easily tested
+  using a common *developer toolkit*.
 
 include::01-pattern.adoc[]

site.yml

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 site:
   title: Solution Patterns for Cloud Native Architectures
   url: https://redhat-solution-patterns.github.io/solution-patterns/
-  start_page: solution-pattern-template::index.adoc
+  start_page: solution-pattern-event-mesh-for-microservices::index.adoc
 
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