Lexicon

Point-to-Point Coupling

Kind: anti-pattern

Layer: Execution Core

Record: lexicon:point-to-point-coupling

Canonical: Lexicon

Coupling a sender directly to a specific receiver, so adding a consumer requires changing the sender.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Mutable State Only and before Shared Database.

Category

  • Event Messaging Async

Violates

  • Publish/Subscribe Pattern

Negated by

  • Message Broker

Linked from

  • Event / Messaging / Asynchronous Architecture