When Vikas Anand, Product Director of Google’s Apigee API Management offering, gave the presentation "The Case for a Unified API and Event Strategy" during the recent EDA Summit of 2022, I was again shocked by a gleaming error in what was presented: “Microservices, while they’re providing a great deal of advantages, they also bring in complexity which you need to manage. We can basically manage this better by providing a solution which is called event-driven architecture. This produces a solution for this problem, of microservices and a solution at scale, where it provides the ability to reduce dependencies and complexities in your application, whilst still allowing the creation of more and more microservices.”
Although I genuinely have no idea what any of that means, an error was nonetheless evident in the associated slide: