I’ve used it with a good degree of success in some data pipeline and spark stuff to have stuff automatically kick off, without heinous conditional orchestration logic. I also use evented stuff over channels in a lot of my rust code with great success.
However, echoing the sentiments of some other comments: most articles about event driven stuff seem to be either marketing blogspam or “we tried it and it was awful”. To be honest I look at a lot of those blog posts and about half the time my thoughts are “no wonder that didn’t work out, that’s an insane design” but is that just “you’re-doing-it-wrong-cope”?
Are there success stories out there that just aren’t being written? Is there just no success stories? Is the architecture less forgiving of poor design and this “higher bar of entry” torpedoes a number of projects? Is it more susceptible to “architecture astronauts” which dooms it? Is it actually decent, but requires a somewhat larger mindset-change than most people take to it, leading to half-baked implementations?
I can’t help but feel the underlying design has some kernels of some really good ideas, but the volume of available evidence sort of suggests otherwise.