--- type: "article" title: "Psychology and EDA? Read about my findings this week." summary: "This week I've learned a lot about the role psychology plays when building the organization structures needed to support Event-Driven Architectures." newsletter: "The Weekly Shift" newsletter_handle: "franmendez" newsletter_url: "https://usecommune.com/n/franmendez" author: "Fran Mendez (@fmvilas)" published: "2025-05-10T12:30:00.000Z" canonical_url: "https://usecommune.com/n/franmendez/a/psychology-and-eda-read-about-my-findings-this-week" markdown_url: "https://usecommune.com/n/franmendez/a/psychology-and-eda-read-about-my-findings-this-week.md" chat_url: "https://usecommune.com/n/franmendez/a/psychology-and-eda-read-about-my-findings-this-week/chat" source_url: "https://newsletter.fmvilas.me/posts/the-psychology-of-eda" body_source: "imported" likes: 1 replies: 0 body_words: 514 --- # Psychology and EDA? Read about my findings this week. ![](https://embed.filekitcdn.com/e/tppsnKSSV6RtcQVLeDZHT8/5nEuhXaXN7FANZ4f1qdrrM) # The psychology of EDA This week has been exciting for me. Writing Shift requires me to research and talk to many different people. In this case, I reached out to a psychologist to educate me on organizational psychology. And you may be wondering why I'm researching this psychology to write Shift in the first place, right? Let me explain... Shift stands on three pillars: 1. EDA **advocacy** 2. The **human side** of EDA 3. EDA **governance** Why including the human side and governance parts? Because once you succeed in advocating EDA —getting the necessary buy-in to start up— you'll have to **make sure your EDA is sustainable in the long term**. ​ It's no secret that I'm not a psychologist or a sociologist. Acknowledging that, this week I started asking some professionals about organizational psychology. You know... internal politics, power dynamics, communication structures, resistance to change, etc. ​ I think this video from Prof. Edgar Schein summarizes my findings this week pretty well: [![video preview](https://functions-js.convertkit.com/playbutton?play=%233197e0&accent=%23ffffff&thumbnailof=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DOjn3YBXZhCQ&width=480&height=270&fit=contain)​](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ojn3YBXZhCQ) It's funny how coincidences work sometimes. A few days ago, [InfoQ released their latest Software Architecture and Design Trends Report](https://www.infoq.com/articles/architecture-trends-2025/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=the-weekly-shift&utm_campaign=newsletter). Once again, AsyncAPI was listed there 💪 However, there was something new to me that caught my eye: socio-technical architectures. The socio-technical architectures concept promotes that we should design our architectures taking into account both the technical aspects of it and the social (human) aspects of it. In other words, design your organization structure to fit the technical architecture. Conway's Law anyone? Writing Shift is getting super interesting and I hope you'll learn with the book as much as I'm learning writing it. Now the challenge is to make all this information digestible for you. If you have any recommendations or connections, reply to this email. Let's talk. ### Weekly Highlights [![](https://embed.filekitcdn.com/e/tppsnKSSV6RtcQVLeDZHT8/8fgj8QERHduurqXMUoQzcF)](https://outpost.hookdeck.com/) ## Hookdeck Outpost The folks at Hookdeck released Outpost. Outpost is open source and self-hostable outbound webhooks infrastructure and the first implementation of [Event Destinations](https://eventdestinations.org/) that enables delivery of your platform events directly to your users' preferred event destinations. [Visit Website](https://outpost.hookdeck.com/) [![](https://embed.filekitcdn.com/e/tppsnKSSV6RtcQVLeDZHT8/m6McUHSjGzH713iZgT2uR1)](https://blog.platformatic.dev/why-we-created-another-kafka-client-for-nodejs) ## Platformatic Kafka Platformatic just released a new Kafka client. With built-in support for serialization and deserialization, native TypeScript integration, and a streamlined API, @platformatic/kafka emerges as a compelling choice for developers seeking to build robust and maintainable Kafka-based applications in Node.js. [Read Announcement](https://blog.platformatic.dev/why-we-created-another-kafka-client-for-nodejs) [![](https://embed.filekitcdn.com/e/tppsnKSSV6RtcQVLeDZHT8/4CGHVxhDczQAbL5vstzasm)](https://www.asyncapi.com/blog/new-governance-board) ## AsyncAPI Governance Board At AsyncAPI, we just finished the voting process to create a new Governance Board that will replace the current Executive Director role. I'm incredibly proud of the transparency of the AsyncAPI community. [Read Announcement](https://www.asyncapi.com/blog/new-governance-board) ### 1 Question For You Last but not least, I'd love to know a bit more from you. This will help me curate the content of future newsletters. This one is simple! Are you using AsyncAPI in your organization? 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