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WHY ARE EVENT-DRIVEN SYSTEMS HARD?

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Event-driven systems use asynchronous messages to trigger actions. These often have to deal with evolving message formats, which requires strategies like backward/forward compatibility and schema registries to avoid system failures. Debugging is difficult due to the distributed nature, but correlation IDs allow for tracing events across services.