# Your event-driven architecture is a distributed monolith -- and that's fine, if you measure it

DevFeed: [Your event-driven architecture is a distributed monolith -- and that's fine, if you measure it](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/your-event-driven-architecture-is-a-distributed-monolith-and-that-s-fine-if-you-measure-it-38795.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://fidelitas.io/2026/05/event-driven-distributed-monolith/>)

Author: fidelitas.io

Published: 2026-05-15T10:30:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [fidelitas.io](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/fidelitas-io.md>)

Topics: [event driven](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/event-driven.md>), [Messaging](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/messaging.md>), [Structured-data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/structured-data.md>), [Traces](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/traces.md>), [interface](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/interface.md>)

Tags: [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [coupling](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/coupling.md>), [decoupling](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/decoupling.md>), [distributed-systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/distributed-systems.md>), [event-driven-architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/event-driven-architecture.md>), [messaging](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/messaging.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/observability.md>), [schemas](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/schemas.md>), [services](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/services.md>), [traces](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/traces.md>)

## AI overview

This opinion article argues that event-driven systems can become distributed monoliths when message brokers hide rather than remove coupling. It focuses on explicit, versioned, validated schemas and traces as ways to reveal dependencies and diagnose failures.

## Source excerpt

Async messaging didn't decouple your services; it hid the coupling. Here's how to find the seams again with traces, schemas, and a healthy fear of fan-out.