Before You Adopt Event-Driven Architecture: Prerequisites, Red Flags, and Partition Strategy
Most teams adopting event-driven architecture never stop to understand what it actually involves. Before committing to the operational overhead that transforms a three-component system into fifteen, verify you actually have the problems EDA exists to solve. This guide provides a decision framework, prerequisites checklist, and a deep dive into partition strategy — the most consequential design decision you’ll make in EDA.