The Case Against Always Using Event-Driven Architecture
When I first encountered event-driven architectures (EDAs), I felt like I had discovered the secret ingredient to making systems both scalable and sexy. “Decoupled components reacting to events? Genius!” I thought. But after watching teams drown in complex event flows and battle asynchronous ghosts, I realized the emperor’s new clothes – sometimes, glue is stickier than lipstick. The Complexity Trap: When Flexibility Becomes a Strangler Fig Let’s start with the innocently named “least-coupled” system design....