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Event-Driven

Distributed

Architecture where components communicate through events

Principles

Asynchronous communicationDecoupled producers and consumersEvent store as source of truthEventual consistency

When to use

Distributed systems, integration between systems, when latency is not critical

When not to use

When you need immediate consistency, simple systems

Pros and Cons

Ventajas

  • + High decoupling
  • + Independent scalability
  • + Auditability (event log)
  • + Reactive to changes

Desventajas

  • - Eventual consistency
  • - Complex debugging
  • - Event order can matter
  • - Additional infrastructure