Top 10 Event-Driven Architecture Pitfalls by Victor Rentea
Join us for this fast-paced, high-energy session packed with 10 real-world production war stories from 150+ companies. Instead of dry slides or theoretical fluff, Victor will use his famous conference soundboard to take you on an entertaining tour of the chaotic world of messaging.
You’ll walk away knowing how to handle duplicate messages, out-of-order data, consumer crashes, and hidden privacy traps, equipping you with practical best practices for building resilient, production-ready event-driven architectures. No REST, just ride!
Date: 9 July 2026
Timing:
4:00 PM (UTC): Live stream kicks off - Top 10 Event-Driven Architecture Pitfalls by Victor Rentea
5:00 PM (UTC): That’s a wrap, live stream ends
You send a message instead of calling a REST API - what can possibly go wrong?
Welcome to the Event-Driven Adventure Park, where every message is a rollercoaster ride! Hold tight as we race through the wild loops of duplicate deliveries, out-of-order twists, and race conditions. Survive the dual-write drop, escape the consumer error maze, solve the lost message quest, and mind the privacy pirates lurking in the shadows. We’ll have 10 thrilling rides — all real war stories collected with ❤️ from 150 companies Victor trained at. Whether you’re an architect, coder, or ops hero, get ready for a wild tour through the quirks and best practices of messaging systems. No REST, just ride! 🎪
Your Speaker: Victor Rentea is a Java Champion specialising in delivering training sessions for mid- to senior-level developers and architects. Thousands of engineers from over 150 companies have attended Victor’s workshops, enabling him to develop deep insights across a variety of application domains. Distilling the lessons learned from these sessions, he gave countless educational yet entertaining talks at top conferences, where he’s known as ‘the speaker with the soundboard’. In his spare time, Victor coaches individuals and teams and organises online meetups for the European Software Crafters community. More at https://victorrentea.ro
Your Host: Vanessa Formicola
Engineering leader and sociotechnical architect with 15 years across Microsoft/Skype, ThoughtWorks, and Flo Health, transforming how technology organisations design, build, and deliver software. Working at the intersection of technical architecture and organisation design, equally comfortable defining technical strategy at leadership level and getting into the detail of systems, teams, and engineering practices.
Background spans legacy modernisation, sociotechnical architecture, developer experience, and engineering effectiveness across healthtech, insurtech, fintech, government, retail, and more. Experienced leading and growing cross-functional teams across multiple countries and time zones.
International conference speaker at QCon London, DevoxxUK, DevoxxBE, FastFlowConf, and Software Architecture Gathering Berlin; creator of Social Decision Records and the Holistic Engineering framework; technical reviewer for O'Reilly; author on InfoQ; podcast guest; and Architecture Track programme committee member at DevoxxUK 2025 & 2026.