5 Event Driven Architecture Problems (And How to Avoid Them)
- by Derek Comartin
- Published on Derek Comartin (CodeOpinion)
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- Architecture
“We switched to event driven architecture. Now we can’t debug anything.”
A member of my channel shared a post with me where a team went all in on event driven architecture and ran into a bunch of problems.
The thing is, they’re not wrong about the pain they experienced. But the problems weren’t directly because of event driven architecture. They were mostly caused by how they understood it and how they were applying it.
So let’s break down the five pain points they had, why they had that pain, and how you can avoid it.
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Where They Started
Before switching to event driven architecture, they had a REST based system. Really, that just means HTTP in this case, with services calling other services.…