The Real Truth About Event-Driven Architecture

Forget the hype that event-driven architecture (EDA) is a magic bullet for building loosely coupled, infinitely scalable systems. In reality, you still face temporal vs. design-time coupling, and “scaling out” can simply shift your bottlenecks elsewhere.

Plus, stitching together complex workflows across services? That’s a design smell waiting to happen. The real power of EDA comes down to sensible service boundaries and smart handling of event ordering—not just firing off messages and hoping for the best.

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