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Event Approval

Intermediate
Updated Jul 11, 2026 Shahin editorial 2 min read
PronunciationEN/ɪˈvɛnt əˈpruːvəl/

Event approval is a governance step in which a new event is reviewed and approved by an owner before it formally enters the data set, so the event list does not grow unmanaged.

Event approval answers a common disease: in large teams any developer can send an event, and unchecked, the event list fills within months with duplicates, badly named and half-built events no one trusts. With an approval step, a new event must first pass a gate: its name fits the convention, it is not a duplicate, its properties are defined. But this step is a trade-off: it raises discipline yet lowers speed, and if it grows too heavy, teams route around it. The right balance is usually that critical, formal events pass through approval while experimental events are created freely in a separate space so innovation is not slowed.