You wanted your system to be resilient, so you followed the standard advice. You added retries.You added circuit breakers.You added fallbacks. But now your system is less resilient. Not because those patterns are bad. They are not. The problem is they are doing exactly what you told them to do. YouTube Check out my …

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Is Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) actually a nightmare, or are we just using it as a scapegoat for poor system design? Link to article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyN64LFG9Fs

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So, you adopted event-driven architecture because your system was a rat’s nest of coupling, and events were the answer to decouple it. But now debugging is a nightmare. You have events coming in out of order. You have retries causing duplicates and multiple different side effects. Local development is a pain. It’s …

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Is Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) actually a nightmare, or are we just using it as a scapegoat for poor system design? Link to article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqvre6dWRw4

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