--- title: What texting your Ex has to do with Event-Driven Design? description: Using the analogy of texting an ex after a night out, this post explains how to handle incorrectly published events in event-driven systems. The four... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/what-texting-your-ex-has-to-do-with-event-driven-design--sijrwir4t twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: What texting your Ex has to do with Event-Driven Design? | daily.dev og:description: Using the analogy of texting an ex after a night out, this post explains how to handle incorrectly published events in event-driven systems. The four... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-texting-your-ex-has-to-do-with-event-driven-design--sijrwir4t og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/SiJrwIR4T.png og:image:alt: What texting your Ex has to do with Event-Driven Design? 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. # What texting your Ex has to do with Event-Driven Design? **[Event-Driven by Oskar Dudycz](https://daily.dev/sources/event-driven-io)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Using the analogy of texting an ex after a night out, this post explains how to handle incorrectly published events in event-driven systems. The four strategies covered are: thinking upfront and writing tests, editing events before they're consumed (e.g., via the Outbox Pattern or database migration), deleting messages from the message bus (e.g., Kafka), and performing compensating operations — similar to issuing a corrective invoice — as the most reliable recovery method. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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