A zero-loss, event-driven architecture for modern, scalable, and resilient systems.

The Event Horizon Architecture – Time Zero Manifesto

1. Events First
Design everything around events — not commands, not states. Events are the system’s truth, forever immutable.

2. RPO = 0
Recovery Point Objective must be zero. Every event matters. No exceptions.

3. Decoupled by Design
Producers and consumers are unaware of each other. Topics and schemas define the only contract.

4. Deterministic Replay
Reprocessing must be safe, deterministic, and controlled. Time travel is not a luxury — it’s a feature.

5. Auditability by Default
Nothing happens in silence. All flows are logged, versioned, and traceable.

6. Observability is a Contract
Logs, metrics, traces — first-class citizens. If it can’t be observed, it doesn’t exist.

7. Fail, but Recover
Failures are expected. Backoff, retry, dead-letter queues, and idempotency are essential tools.

8. Scalable from Day One
Design for horizontal scale from the start — partitions, stateless services, sharding.

9. Contracts over Code
Schemas and validation are stronger than type systems. Evolution is safe only with explicit contracts.

10. Idempotency Always
Every consumer must be idempotent. Only then is reprocessing safe.

11. Topology Agnostic
Whether it's cloud, hybrid, or edge — the flow remains pure. Kafka, Pulsar, Redis Streams — the architecture adapts.

12. Time is a First-Class Concept
Timestamps, delays, ordering, and temporal correlation are built-in, not bolted-on.

"The Event Horizon is not the end. It’s the beginning of everything that can’t be undone."