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by SideburnsOfDoom 1330 days ago
This omits the issues with "thin events" - it may be fine most of the time, but as it usually involves a "get more details" call over http or of some other kind, it has more moving parts, is therefor more prone to failures and slowdowns due to the extra coupling. This can kick in when load goes up or some other issue affects reliability, and cause cascading failure.