Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) is hailed for its loose coupling, but it often confuses design-time coupling with temporal coupling—just because you decouple services doesn’t mean you’ve escaped coordination headaches. And while EDA can scale, you’ll usually just move your bottleneck elsewhere unless you’re careful.
Chaining events into complex, cross-service workflows is a design smell, so keep your boundaries tight and your event ordering clear. In short: know what you’re trading off, avoid spaghetti-style workflows, and focus on meaningful boundaries to make EDA actually work.
Watch on YouTube
Top comments (0)