Design Patterns

The Observer Pattern and Event-Driven Design

Decouple publishers from subscribers by letting objects register interest in events without the producer knowing who is listening.

March 3, 2026
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The Observer pattern defines a one-to-many dependency: when a subject's state changes, all registered observers are notified automatically. This decouples the subject from its dependents — the subject does not know how many observers exist or what they do. Modern event buses, domain event dispatchers, and reactive streams all implement this idea at different scales.

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