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Five Common Misconceptions About Event-Driven Architecture

An opportunity for everyone to make a little self-test. Do you believe any of these five statements? If so, don't worry, you're not the only one, I've come across them many times. I'm very convinced they're untrue, though. This is my little attempt to better a shared understanding of some properties of event-driven architecture.

For these messages, that look like events but really expect a specific recipient to carry out an action, Martin Fowler coined the term “passive-agressive commands”. If you want to explore this further, I encourage you to watch my recent talk “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Events” ( Video, Slides), where I speak about this in detail. Once you enter microservices land, to support autonomous development and operations across multiple teams, you have the added challenge of dealing with the distributed nature.

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