The Real Truth About Event-Driven Architecture

Think EDA’s the silver bullet for loose coupling and scale? This video tears down that myth by showing how you often trade design-time coupling for temporal coupling, and how “scaling” can simply shift your bottlenecks elsewhere. It also flags complex, cross-service workflows as a big design smell you should avoid.

On the bright side, you’ll get a crash course in event ordering quirks and practical tips for carving sensible service boundaries. Plus, there’s a nod to Kurrent (formerly EventStoreDB) if you want to dive deeper into a solid event store solution.

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