TLDR · PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

EVENT-HIDDEN ARCHITECTURES

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Events are a useful mechanism for transmitting state and data among application resources, but they are a miserable experience for developers and operators alike. The event-driven approach was necessary early in the decade but it isn't any longer. Today's modern abstractions mean that developers don't need to learn the unique quirks of low-level infrastructure or understand the overall application architecture just to build or enhance their part of the application. Event-hidden grants engineers new powers while simplifying engineering. It enables developers to build feature-rich, scaled, and distributed applications without having to interact with events, queues, and the industry of patterns, frameworks, and consultants that came with them.