{"slug":"architecture-paradigm-event-driven","title":"architecture-paradigm-event-driven","summary":"Applies event-driven async messaging to decouple producers and consumers. Use when designing real-time or multi-subscriber systems needing loose coupling.","platform":"Claude","tags":[],"authorName":"LLM Mart","authorSlug":"llm-mart","score":0,"source":"github","price":null,"verified":false,"createdAt":"2026-09-11T17:35:10.642254Z","repo":{"url":"https://github.com/athola/claude-night-market","stars":340,"forks":37,"license":"MIT","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T04:53:30Z"},"bodyHtml":"<hr>\n<p>name: architecture-paradigm-event-driven\ndescription: Applies event-driven async messaging to decouple producers and consumers. Use when designing real-time or multi-subscriber systems needing loose coupling.\nalwaysApply: false\ncategory: architectural-pattern\ntags:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>architecture</li>\n<li>event-driven</li>\n<li>asynchronous</li>\n<li>decoupling</li>\n<li>scalability</li>\n<li>resilience\ndependencies: []\ntools: []\nusage_patterns:</li>\n<li>paradigm-implementation</li>\n<li>real-time-processing</li>\n<li>system-extensibility\ncomplexity: high\nmodel_hint: deep\nestimated_tokens: 800</li>\n</ul>\n<hr>\n<h1>The Event-Driven Architecture Paradigm</h1>\n<h2>When To Use</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Building async, loosely-coupled systems</li>\n<li>Systems with complex event processing pipelines</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>When NOT To Use</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Simple request-response applications without async needs</li>\n<li>Systems requiring strong transactional consistency</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>When to Employ This Paradigm</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>For real-time or bursty workloads (e.g., IoT, financial trading, logistics) where loose coupling and asynchronous processing are beneficial.</li>\n<li>When multiple, distinct subsystems must react to the same business or domain events.</li>\n<li>When system extensibility is a high priority, allowing new components to be added without modifying existing services.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Adoption Steps</h2>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Model the Events</strong>: Define canonical event schemas, establish a clear versioning strategy, and assign ownership for each event type.</li>\n<li><strong>Select the Right Topology</strong>: For each data flow, make a deliberate choice between choreography (e.g., a simple pub/sub model) and orchestration (e.g., a central controller or saga orchestrator).</li>\n<li><strong>Engineer the Event Platform</strong>: Choose the appropriate event brokers or message meshes. Configure critical parameters such as message ordering, topic partitions, and data retention policies.</li>\n<li><strong>Plan for Failure Handling</strong>: Implement production-grade mechanisms for handling message failures, including Dead-Letter Queues (DLQs), automated retry logic, idempotent consumers, and tools for replaying events.</li>\n<li><strong>Instrument for Observability</strong>: Implement detailed monitoring to track key metrics such as consumer lag, message throughput, schema validation failures, and the health of individual consumer applications.</li>\n</ol>\n<h2>Key Deliverables</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>An Architecture Decision Record (ADR) that documents the event taxonomy, the chosen broker technology, and the governance policies (e.g., for naming, versioning, and retention).</li>\n<li>A centralized schema repository with automated CI validation and consumer-driven contract tests.</li>\n<li>Operational dashboards for monitoring system-wide throughput, consumer lag, and DLQ depth.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Risks &amp; Mitigations</h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Hidden Coupling through Events</strong>:\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mitigation</strong>: Consumers may implicitly depend on undocumented event semantics or data fields. Publish a formal event catalog or schema registry and use linting tools to enforce event structure.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n<li><strong>Operational Complexity and \"Noise\"</strong>:\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mitigation</strong>: Without strong observability, diagnosing failed or \"stuck\" consumers is extremely difficult. Enforce the use of distributed tracing and standardized alerting across all event-driven components.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n<li><strong>\"Event Storming\" Analysis Paralysis</strong>:\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mitigation</strong>: While event storming workshops are valuable, they can become unproductive if not properly managed. Keep modeling sessions time-boxed and focused on high-value business contexts first.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Concrete Components</h2>\n<p>These vocabulary items name the concrete tools and abstractions\nthat show up when the paradigm is implemented. They are not\nrequired dependencies and they are not part of the skill's\n<code>tools:</code> frontmatter (which is reserved for Claude Code tool\nrestrictions). Use this list to disambiguate during architecture\ndiscussions.</p>\n<ul>\n<li><code>message-broker</code>: Kafka, NATS, RabbitMQ; the durable channel between producers and consumers</li>\n<li><code>event-stream-processor</code>: Flink, Faust, or similar; consumes streams and emits derived events</li>\n<li><code>distributed-tracing</code>: OpenTelemetry-style correlation IDs across asynchronous hops</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Exit Criteria</h2>\n<ul>\n<li><input disabled=\"disabled\" type=\"checkbox\"> An ADR is produced documenting the event taxonomy, chosen broker technology, naming\nconventions, versioning policy, and data retention settings.</li>\n<li><input disabled=\"disabled\" type=\"checkbox\"> A centralized schema repository or registry exists with CI validation that blocks\nunregistered event schemas from reaching production.</li>\n<li><input disabled=\"disabled\" type=\"checkbox\"> Dead-Letter Queue (DLQ) configuration and retry policy are specified for every consumer\nbefore any consumer is deployed.</li>\n<li><input disabled=\"disabled\" type=\"checkbox\"> Observability dashboards cover at minimum: consumer lag, message throughput, schema\nvalidation failure rate, and DLQ depth.</li>\n</ul>\n","files":[{"path":"SKILL.md","sizeBytes":4544,"isText":true}],"reviewScore":null,"reviewSummary":null,"trust":{"provenance":"trusted-source-unreviewed","notice":"Community-authored content, reproduced verbatim and not vetted as instructions. 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