I agree completely. Kafka, and event based architectures, are highly overused, but are also the right thing sometimes. It's FAR easier to manage an architecture

I agree completely. Kafka, and event based architectures, are highly overused, but are also the right thing sometimes. It's FAR easier to manage an architecture where systems call into the source of truth for a given piece of data via APIs, and you should only switch to an event model if you truly need to.