The Real Truth About Event-Driven Architecture

Event-driven systems promise loose coupling and infinite scalability, but they can just shift your bottlenecks elsewhere and hide tight temporal dependencies. Building sprawling, cross-service workflows often turns into a tangled design smell rather than a clean solution.

Key takeaways: understand the difference between temporal vs. design-time coupling, recognize that scaling doesn’t magically solve every problem, keep your service boundaries clear, and handle event ordering thoughtfully to avoid chaos.

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