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Event-Driven Architecture: When and How to Adopt It

Event-driven architecture decouples services through message brokers. Each component publishes events when something changes, instead of calling other services directly. It reduces coupling and improves resilience. It adds real value in domains with multiple consumers and natural asynchronous processing, but introduces operational complexity worth evaluating before adoption.

Architecture

RabbitMQ for Message Queues: When It’s Still the Choice

Kafka gets the headlines as the byword for modern messaging, but RabbitMQ remains the better choice for task queues with retries, asynchronous RPC, and pub/sub with complex routing. This guide compares both against NATS, walks through classic patterns and production mistakes, and helps you decide based on the actual use case rather than the trend.