It's time for Wikimedia Tech Talks 2020 Episode 8! This talk will take place Tuesday 22 September 2020 at 17:00 UTC. Title: (Modern) Event (Data) Platform Speaker: Andrew Otto, Staff Site Reliability Engineer Summary: Wikimedia's Event (Data) Platform provides a foundation for building loosely coupled event driven software systems. This talk will go over why we built Event Platform and give an overview of its components and how they work. The link to the Youtube Livestream can be found here: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNNy8ALGjaE> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb_9gOYsWJQ During the live talk, you are invited to join the discussion on IRC at #wikimedia-office You can browse past Tech Talks here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Tech_talks If you are interested in giving your own tech talk, you can learn more here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Calendar/How_to_schedule_an_event#Te… Note: This is a public talk. Feel free to distribute through appropriate email and social channels! Kindly, Sarah R. Rodlund Senior Technical Writer, Developer Advocacy <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy> srodlund(a)wikimedia.org