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Proposing a phased migration from our current synchronous API calls to an event-driven architecture using Apache Kafka. Phase 1 (Q2): Introduce event bus for non-critical paths (notifications, analytics) Phase 2 (Q3): Migrate webhook delivery to event-driven Phase 3 (Q4): Core API endpoints move to async where applicable Benefits: - Better decoupling between services - Improved resilience (retry, dead letter queues built-in) - Easier scaling of individual consumers - Natural audit trail via event log I would like to discuss this at next week's architecture review. Please add your thoughts in the RFC doc. [DRAFT — needs final review of scaling estimates]