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Curious why you decided to go for GraphQL instead of something like Cloud Events spec (https://cloudevents.io https://cloudevents.io)

• quantdaddy 5y ago
  Great question: I've commented on it here: https://graphql-eventbus.vercel.app/docs/principles/thinking-in-graphql-eventbus https://graphql-eventbus.vercel.app/docs/principles/thinking... See the "Specification for Event based communication" section. "While cloudevents does have a promising specification, it does not provide any runtime guarantees. It's similar to OpenAPI: a specification that is hard to follow because nothing enforces runtime compliance with the specification. While this specification makes sense for public Event APIs, we believe that GraphQL Eventbus offers a lot more for building your enterprise event bus." GraphQL eventbus does incorporate some best practices from cloudevents and event architecture in general: it creates an eventID and publish time for each event and propagates metadata like requestId.