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Is it very difficult to set up a good event listening architecture? It doesn't seem very difficult from the outside, but I would like to read about bad experien

• lloydatkinson 5y ago
  From my experience you’d usually have a message queue/broker for distributed and/or event driven architectures. Having incoming events is just a case of another producer in the system writing to the queue.
• conradludgate 5y ago
  A good event system is not hard, but a reliable one is hard. Reliability in making sure events are received, processed, not lost and not processed multiple times
  • alexbouchard 5y ago
    That's right. In the context of pushed events, you have very little margin for error. It's definitely "solvable," but a bit part of the problem is that for most tech teams, it's not their bread and butter. Handling webhooks reliably is just overhead and work they aren't putting into their actual product. So you end up with a lot of not-so-reliable implementations.