#Event-Driven Architecture

Articles about Event-Driven Architecture — exploring patterns, best practices, and real-world implementations in production systems.

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Pratik Dhanave · ·5 min read

Kafka in Production

Kafka's defaults will run; whether they'll survive a broker failure, a traffic spike, or a year of growth depends on a handful of decisions — replication, durability, partitioning, and what you monitor — that are far cheaper to make now than to retrofit later.

Kafka's defaults will run; whether they survive a broker failure, a spike, or a year of growth depends on a handful of decisions — replication, durability, partitioning, and what you monitor.

#Kafka#Distributed Systems#Backend Engineering#Observability#Event-Driven Architecture#Reliability
Pratik Dhanave · ·5 min read

Event-Driven Patterns

Kafka gives you a durable log; these patterns are what you build on it — event sourcing, CQRS, the outbox, sagas, and the choice between choreography and orchestration — the vocabulary of real event-driven systems.

Kafka gives you a durable log; these patterns are what you build on it — event sourcing, CQRS, the outbox, sagas, and the choice between choreography and orchestration.

#Kafka#Event-Driven Architecture#Distributed Systems#Software Architecture#Backend Engineering#Multi-Agent Systems
Pratik Dhanave · ·5 min read

Schemas and Event Design

In an event-driven system your events are a public API that outlives every service that reads them, so how you shape them and how you evolve them without breaking consumers is not a detail — it is the contract the whole architecture rests on.

In an event-driven system your events are a public API that outlives every service that reads them, so how you shape and evolve them without breaking consumers is the contract the whole architecture rests on.

#Kafka#Event-Driven Architecture#API Design#Backend Engineering#Distributed Systems#APIs
Pratik Dhanave · ·5 min read

Delivery Semantics and Exactly-Once

"Exactly-once" is the most misunderstood phrase in streaming — it is real in Kafka, but only within a specific boundary, and outside that boundary the honest and usually-correct answer is at-least-once plus idempotent consumers.

'Exactly-once' is the most misunderstood phrase in streaming — it's real in Kafka, but only within a specific boundary, and outside it the honest answer is at-least-once plus idempotent consumers.

#Kafka#Distributed Systems#Backend Engineering#Event-Driven Architecture#Streaming
Pratik Dhanave · ·5 min read

Consumers and Consumer Groups

A single consumer reading a topic is easy; the elegant part is how Kafka lets a group of consumers share the work automatically, rebalance when members come and go, and each remember exactly where it left off.

The elegant part of Kafka is how a group of consumers shares the work automatically, rebalances when members come and go, and each remembers exactly where it left off.

#Kafka#Backend Engineering#Distributed Systems#Event-Driven Architecture
Pratik Dhanave · ·5 min read

Producers: Writing Events

A producer looks trivial — send a record to a topic — but the three decisions it makes (which partition, how durably, how safely on retry) determine your ordering, your durability, and whether retries create duplicates.

A producer looks trivial, but the three decisions it makes — which partition, how durably, how safely on retry — determine your ordering, your durability, and whether retries create duplicates.

#Kafka#Backend Engineering#Distributed Systems#Event-Driven Architecture
Pratik Dhanave · ·6 min read

The Log: Kafka's Core Abstraction

Almost everything Kafka does follows from one deceptively simple idea — an append-only, ordered, durable log — and once that clicks, topics, partitions, and offsets stop being jargon and become obvious.

Almost everything Kafka does follows from one deceptively simple idea — an append-only, ordered, durable log — and once that clicks, topics, partitions, and offsets stop being jargon and become obvious.

#Kafka#Distributed Systems#Backend Engineering#Event-Driven Architecture
Pratik Dhanave · ·5 min read

Why Event-Driven Architecture?

Synchronous request/response quietly welds your services together until a change in one breaks three others; event-driven architecture breaks that weld by making the event — a fact that happened — the thing services share.

Synchronous request/response quietly welds your services together until a change in one breaks three others; event-driven architecture breaks that weld by making the event — a fact that happened — the thing services share.

#Kafka#Event-Driven Architecture#Distributed Systems#Backend Engineering

All posts on this site are written by Pratik Dhanave, an Agentic AI Architect with 7+ years building production distributed systems, multi-agent AI platforms, and cloud-native infrastructure. About the author → Each article includes working code, architecture diagrams, and references to the specific frameworks and standards discussed. Browse all posts or explore related topics using the tag cloud above.