The Real Truth About Event-Driven Architecture isn’t some magic wand for perfect decoupling and infinite scale. Yes, you’ll break design-time dependencies, but your services still end up waiting on each other in the event stream, and “just throw more machines at it” often just moves the choke point elsewhere. And once you start stitching together complex workflows across half a dozen services? Hello, debugging nightmares and design-smell city.
The real win comes from sensible service boundaries and letting consumers drive what matters. Event ordering isn’t a freebie—it’ll bite your performance if you demand global consistency. Learn these trade-offs instead of worshipping EDA, and you’ll actually build systems that scale without turning into a maintenance horror show.
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