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Event-Driven Architectures: The Foundation of Modern Distributed Systems

Author(s) Karthik Reddy Thondalapally
Country United States
Abstract Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) has emerged as a foundational paradigm for modern distributed systems, enabling organizations to build resilient, scalable, and responsive applications. This architectural approach fundamentally transforms how system components interact by facilitating asynchronous communication through events rather than direct calls. By decoupling producers and consumers, EDA creates systems that can maintain high availability during failures, scale dynamically under variable loads, and adapt quickly to changing business requirements. Organizations across sectors including finance, healthcare, retail, and manufacturing have realized substantial benefits in performance, maintainability, and operational efficiency after implementing event-driven patterns. The architecture's core components—event producers and consumers, message brokers, and streaming analytics platforms—work in concert to enable real-time processing, reduced dependencies, and enhanced business agility. While offering significant advantages, EDA also introduces challenges in schema management, eventual consistency, debugging, and error handling that must be addressed through deliberate implementation strategies.
Keywords Asynchronous Communication, Microservices Integration, Event Brokers, Decoupled Systems, Real-time Processing
Field Computer
Published In Volume 16, Issue 1, January-March 2025
Published On 2025-03-28
Cite This Event-Driven Architectures: The Foundation of Modern Distributed Systems - Karthik Reddy Thondalapally - IJSAT Volume 16, Issue 1, January-March 2025. DOI 10.71097/IJSAT.v16.i1.2907
DOI https://doi.org/10.71097/IJSAT.v16.i1.2907
Short DOI https://doi.org/g896fs

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