--- title: Don't let Event-Driven Architecture buzzwords fool you description: A clarification of common misconceptions around Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) terminology. EDA is about logical workflow composition using events as facts... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-let-event-driven-architecture-buzzwords-fool-you-pz9a8mwzy twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Don't let Event-Driven Architecture buzzwords fool you | daily.dev og:description: A clarification of common misconceptions around Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) terminology. EDA is about logical workflow composition using events as facts... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-let-event-driven-architecture-buzzwords-fool-you-pz9a8mwzy og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/PZ9a8MWZY.png og:image:alt: Don't let Event-Driven Architecture buzzwords fool you og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Don't let Event-Driven Architecture buzzwords fool you **[Event-Driven by Oskar Dudycz](https://daily.dev/sources/event-driven-io)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A clarification of common misconceptions around Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) terminology. EDA is about logical workflow composition using events as facts and commands as directives — not about specific messaging tools. Messaging (Outbox, Inbox, Competing Consumers, etc.) is a separate layer focused on technical delivery guarantees. The recommended design flow is: first model the business workflow with EDA, then define messaging patterns for guarantees, then select tooling like Kafka or RabbitMQ. Terms like 'Command-Event' and 'Event-Based Compute' are marketing inventions that obscure well-established patterns, leading developers toward distributed monolith anti-patterns when misunderstood. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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