Event-driven architecture is great for loose coupling between services. But you might not be if you're using it for data distribution.

Alexandre Couedelo

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The post discusses the issue of event-driven architecture losing the value of decoupling due to the way events are defined and used, particularly in terms of data-centric events. It emphasizes the importance of business-focused and behavior-centric events to capture meaningful information. The post also mentions the use of events for data distribution in reporting purposes.

Event-Driven Architecture lost its way

<p>Based on my experience, complexity in debugging and monitoring is a major issue with such event driven architectures.
Tracing and understanding the flow of events through an event-driven system can be challenging. The asynchronous nature of these systems makes it harder to track the sequence of operations and pinpoint failures, leading to complex debugging sessions. Wdyt?</p>
