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Why might a write ('create') endpoint in an event-driven service publish to Kafka instead of writing directly to its own database?

Publishing the write as an event lets multiple independent downstream consumers react to it (search indexing, notifications, analytics) without the write endpoint needing to know about or call each of them directly — the producer stays decoupled from however many things eventually care about that write.

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