Event-Driven Architecture often gets hyped as the magic bullet for loose coupling and infinite scale, but it doesn’t automatically solve every problem. You still have to wrestle with temporal vs. design-time coupling, and cranking up the event bus can just shift your bottlenecks elsewhere.
Stitching complex workflows across services is a classic design smell, and don’t even get me started on the event-ordering headache. The real trick is defining sensible boundaries around your events, understanding where complexity lurks, and not overestimating EDA’s superpowers.
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