The Real Truth About Event-Driven Architecture
Event-Driven Architecture promises loose coupling and effortless scalability, but it’s easy to conflate design-time coupling (how you model services) with temporal coupling (when they run). Pushing more events through your system can simply shift bottlenecks elsewhere, and stitching services into complex, multi-step workflows is a red flag for design smell—not a badge of microservices mastery.
Digging deeper, you’ve got to get event ordering right and carve out meaningful boundaries to avoid chaos. By understanding where to enforce consistency and when to let services act independently, you’ll build systems that are both resilient and genuinely decoupled.
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