Cat & Monkey BITESAlexander Meyer

Global Event Systems & Data Observers

Legacy codebases relied heavily on static access patterns, causing hidden dependencies and initialization order problems.

Solution

I introduced a manager-based event system combined with data observers. Events were instantiated on demand, decoupling publishers and listeners and allowing systems to react when dependencies became available.

Outcome

Responsibilities were clearly separated, debugging became easier through centralized logging, and feature development accelerated.

Event system diagram with event publisher and listener

Trade-Off

The system was not thread-safe, requiring discipline when used alongside asynchronous tasks.

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