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Event-Driven Architecture (EDA)
Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) is a software design pattern where services communicate through events, enabling real-time responsiveness and high system decoupling. It’s ideal for building scalable, reactive, and loosely coupled systems.
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With EDA, we can:
Build systems that react instantly to changes - like user actions, data updates, or external signals.
Decouple components so they operate independently and scale without breaking tight integrations.
EDA enables real-time analytics, fraud detection, and monitoring by streaming events as they happen.
We can use event brokers like Kafka or RabbitMQ to route, buffer, and manage events between services.
Event sourcing allows us to persist state changes over time, improving auditability and traceability.
We can design systems that are more resilient to failure, since services don't need to wait on each other synchronously.
EDA supports microservices communication through publish-subscribe patterns, increasing modularity.
We can enrich customer experience by triggering automated workflows - for example, sending emails after purchases or updating dashboards in real time.
It supports edge processing and IoT applications where latency and responsiveness are critical.
Overall, EDA helps create systems that are flexible, extensible, and built for modern, dynamic business environments.