Event-driven architecture is great, but don't fall into the trap of these Anti-patterns in Event-Driven Architecture.

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The post discusses anti-patterns in event-driven architecture, including leaking internals, the distinction between commands and events, the importance of explicit events for workflow, the limitations of ordered event processing, and why queries are not suitable for event-driven architecture.

Beware! Anti-patterns in Event-Driven Architecture

Anti-patterns in Event-Driven Architecture

<p>I’ve seen some bad anti-patterns in event driven architecture that revolved around ROA, resource oriented architecture. A resource identifier in a message that was a route to the original data element so that service A could call service B’s endpoint for additional data…and the route contained version info. v1/myresource/{id}. The route in the message was persisted in service A’s database as a pointer to its source.</p>
