title: Event-driven
text: # Event-driven
  
  Event driven may refer to:
  
  The term event-driven refers to a methodology that focuses on events and event dependencies.
  
  ## Examples include
  
  * Event-driven finite-state machine, finite-state machine where the transition from one state to another is triggered by an event or a message
  * Event-driven programming, a programming paradigm in which the flow of the program is determined by events, and is often characterised by a main loop, event handlers, and asynchronous programming
  * Event-driven architecture, a software architecture pattern promoting the production, detection, consumption of, and reaction to events
  * Event-driven investing, a hedge fund investment strategy that seeks to exploit pricing inefficiencies that may occur before or after a corporate event
  * Event-driven process chains, a type of flowchart used for business process modelling
  * Workflows, a sequence of connected steps
  