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Event-Driven Architectures: Lessons Learned

Three years of Kafka in production — what worked, what didn’t.

September 22, 20251 min read

Three years of running Kafka in production taught us that event-driven architectures shine for decoupling but demand discipline around schema evolution, ordering guarantees, and dead-letter handling.

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