The Real Truth About Event-Driven Architecture

Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) often gets billed as the silver bullet for loosely coupled, super-scalable systems, but this deep dive calls BS on a few myths. It shows how “loose coupling” can still hide temporal ties, scalability often just shifts bottlenecks instead of eliminating them, and over-engineering complex workflows across services is a classic design smell.

You’ll also get the lowdown on event ordering headaches and practical tips for carving out sensible service boundaries—plus a friendly reminder that sometimes simplicity beats a fancy event-driven pipeline.

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