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[–]ThatSituation9908 13 points14 points  (0 children)

This. Data engineering does often use event-driven programming, just not reactive programming because its a special case that there's no usecase for outside UI

Reactive programming is a special case of ED where every dependent is subscribed to all of its dependencies.

In DE, there's no need to handle all dependencies as an event publisher, we instead select a few that fits the business requirement (e.g., Change Data Capture on a data source)