This chapter describes domain language of Hermes, that is used consistently throughout all documentation. It maps directly to the way Hermes stores metadata and how users interact with the system.
Topic is usually referred using full-qualified name, which consists of group name and topic name separated by dot. Group name can contain any characters - letters., numbers, dots. However topic name can not contain dots.
tech.allegro.hermeseventsPublishedtech.allegro.hermes.eventsPublishedIn full-qualified topic name, topic name is always the segment after the last dot.
Subscriptions names are used only in context of topic, thus there are no special conventions for their names. They only have to be unique locally, in scope of current topic.
Publisher creates group that will hold topics. When topic is configured, publisher can start publishing messages. Subscriber creates subscription on given topic to receive published messages. Subscriber receives messages starting from moment of subscription creation.