# Long Term Ownership and Maintenance of an Event-Driven System

DevFeed: [Long Term Ownership and Maintenance of an Event-Driven System](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/long-term-ownership-and-maintenance-of-an-event-driven-system-17820.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://encore.dev/blog/long-term-ownership>)

Author: Matt Boyle

Published: 2023-07-27T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Encore Updates](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/encore-updates.md>)

Topics: [event driven](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/event-driven.md>), [Architecture & Design](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/architecture-design.md>), [Microservice](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/microservice.md>), [Go](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/go.md>)

Tags: [architectures](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architectures.md>), [dependencies](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dependencies.md>), [event-driven](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/event-driven.md>), [latest-release](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/latest-release.md>), [microservices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/microservices.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>)

## AI overview

This final article in a series on event-driven architecture examines the long-term ownership and maintenance of growing distributed systems. It discusses keeping dependencies and container images updated, handling major version changes, reviewing release notes, and testing updates before deployment.

## Source excerpt

The least sexy aspect of building Event-Driven Architectures