Event Versioning in Distributed Systems

Architecture Corner Newsletter Podcast. When building event-driven architectures, one critical decision often gets overlooked until it becomes a problem: how do you handle event versioning? This fundamental aspect can make or break your system's ability to handle real-world challenges like out-of-order messages, duplicates, and missing events.In this episode we will cover:Why event versioning is essential for robust event-driven systemsCommon problems that versioning helps solve: duplicate detection, out-of-order handling, and missing event identificationTimestamp-based versioning approach and its practical limitationsIncrease-by-one versioning strategy and its advantages for optimistic lockingTrade-offs between different versioning approaches and how to choose the right one for your systemHow versioning connects to broader patterns like event sourcing and transactional outboxFor more details check here.If you are interested in more information about software development and architecture, subscribe for free to our ⁠newsletter⁠.---https://architecturecorner.substack.com

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