System Design
Event-Driven Architecture Pitfalls I've Seen in Production
Common failure modes in event-driven systems — ordering, schema evolution, duplicate handling, and the dual-write problem — with practical solutions.
Akhil Sharma
February 10, 2026
10 min read
Event-DrivenArchitectureDistributed SystemsKafka
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