Event-Driven Architectures: Patterns and Anti-patterns
What You’ll Master Today
• Core EDA patterns that scale to millions of events per second
• Deadly anti-patterns that bring down production systems
• Enterprise insights from Netflix, Amazon, and Spotify’s event architectures
• Production-ready implementation with real failure modes and recovery
The Silent Revolution in System Architecture
While most engineers obsess over microservices boundaries, the real architectural revolution happening at scale is event-driven design. When Spotify processes 4 billion events daily for music recommendations, or when Netflix handles 500 billion events for viewing analytics, they’re not just moving data—they’re implementing a fundamentally different way systems communicate.
The insight that separates senior architects from junior developers: Events aren’t just messages—they’re the nervous system of distributed applications. They enable temporal decoupling, allowing systems to evolve independently while maintaining loose coupling that traditional API calls can never achieve.
