Event-Driven Architecture quiz

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What does it mean for consumers to be "loosely coupled in time" in EDA?

1. What does it mean for consumers to be "loosely coupled in time" in EDA?
2. What is the "outbox pattern" used for?
3. Why might a team choose synchronous REST calls over an event for a particular interaction, despite generally adopting EDA?
4. What is Change Data Capture (CDC), and how does it relate to EDA?
5. What is a message broker's role in EDA?
6. Why does message ordering matter, and when is it hard to guarantee?
7. What is a "saga" in distributed systems?
8. What is "event sourcing"?
9. What is "event-carried state transfer"?
10. How does CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation) commonly relate to EDA?
11. What is Event-Driven Architecture (EDA)?
12. What does "at-least-once delivery" mean, and what does it imply for consumers?

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