The Real Truth About Event-Driven Architecture

Event-Driven Architecture is often hailed as the magic bullet for building loosely coupled, scalable systems—but it’s not quite that simple. In this video review of “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Truth About Event-Driven Architecture,” you’ll learn how what looks like decoupling at design time can just shift your bottlenecks to runtime, why scattering complex workflows across services is a red flag, and how clever you have to be about ordering events if you want your system to behave predictably.

Beyond the hype, the real takeaway is about trade-offs and boundaries. You’ll see why simply adding more instances won’t solve scaling challenges on its own, how to spot when events are making things more tangled instead of simpler, and what sensible service boundaries look like when events are involved.

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