The Real Truth About Event-Driven Architecture
Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) isn’t the silver bullet it’s often made out to be. Sure, it promises loose coupling, but you still have temporal dependencies hiding in the shadows, and “scaling up” can just move your chokepoints elsewhere. Chaining complex workflows across services? That’s a rookie mistake—complexity grows faster than your sanity.
The real trick is knowing when to embrace event ordering, drawing sensible service boundaries, and understanding that true decoupling comes from smart design, not just fire-and-forget events. It’s about weighing trade-offs, not blindly chasing the event hype.
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