# Event-driven systems and the truth about "loosely coupled" architectures

DevFeed: [Event-driven systems and the truth about "loosely coupled" architectures](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/event-driven-systems-and-the-truth-about-loosely-coupled-architectures-35828.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://temporal.io/blog/event-driven-systems-and-the-truth-about-loosely-coupled-architectures>)

Author: Erica Sadun

Published: 2024-12-04T16:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Temporal Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/temporal-blog.md>)

Topics: [event driven](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/event-driven.md>), [Resilience](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/resilience.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systems.md>), [Developer experience](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/developer-experience.md>)

Tags: [architectures](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architectures.md>), [challenges](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/challenges.md>), [coupling](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/coupling.md>), [developer-experience](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer-experience.md>), [event-driven](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/event-driven.md>), [resilience](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/resilience.md>), [scale](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scale.md>), [services](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/services.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/systems.md>), [temporal-concepts](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/temporal-concepts.md>), [troubleshooting](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/troubleshooting.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains how event-driven architectures use independently operating services and message-based communication to support scalability and resilience. It discusses tradeoffs including coupling, troubleshooting, and developer experience, and describes how Temporal abstracts failure and retry logic.

## Source excerpt

Explore the challenges of event-driven systems and how loosely coupled architectures improve developer experience and troubleshooting.