So You Want to Maintain a Reliable Event-Driven System

Discover practical strategies for maintaining reliable event-driven systems in this 49-minute conference talk by James Eastham at NDC London 2025. Learn beyond the basics of building producers and consumers with managed message channels, and focus on the operational challenges that keep systems running smoothly. Gain valuable insights into testing asynchronous communication systems, evolving architectures over time, implementing effective observability, and recovering from failures. Follow along as James walks through the complete software development lifecycle of an actual application, providing both theoretical foundations and actionable practices you can immediately apply to your own event-driven architectures. Perfect for developers and architects who want to ensure their distributed systems remain reliable, performant, and won't trigger those dreaded 3 AM pager alerts.