Designing a Resilient Media Orchestration System: Event-Driven Architecture with Real-Time AI Every content team eventually faces the same wall: you've got six platforms to publish on, a dozen data sources feeding in, and some AI pipeline generating drafts — but none of it talks to each other without duct tape and cron jobs. What you need isn't more tools. You need an orchestration layer . Over the past few months, I've been designing a system that ingests content from multiple sources, processes it through AI models, and distributes it across platforms — all in real time, with fault tolerance built in from day one. Here's what the architecture looks like and the decisions that mattered. The Core Challenge The naive approach is a linear pipeline: fetch → process → publish. That works until one step fails and the entire chain collapses.…