Microservices, event-driven architecture, and service orientation were discussed in the document. The key points covered included:
1) Microservices were developed as a reaction to monolithic architectures that had slow evolution due to poor design.
2) Splitting systems into services does not always provide proper decoupling, and can introduce accidental complexity from distributed service integration if not done properly.
3) Asynchronous event-driven communication using messages is preferable to synchronous request-response for loosely coupled microservices, as it avoids many of the issues that arise from distributed transactions.
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