The Real Truth About Event-Driven Architecture

Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) isn’t a magic bullet for loose coupling or infinite scale—you still end up juggling temporal vs. design-time coupling and risk simply shifting your bottlenecks elsewhere. Chaining complex workflows across services might feel powerful but often smells like over-engineering.

On top of that, event ordering can bite you if you don’t set sensible boundaries, and solving “scale” with more nodes doesn’t fix poor design. The video unpacks these myths and lays out how to keep your services clean, your events in order, and your architecture genuinely scalable.

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