SEDA is an acronym for s taged e vent- d riven a rchitecture, and decomposes a complex, event-driven Software computer program into a set of stages connected by queues. This design avoids the high overhead associated with thread (computer science)-based concurrency models, and decouples event and thread scheduling from application logic. By performing admission control on each event queue, the service can be well-conditioned to load, preventing resources from being overcommitted when demand exceeds service capacity.

SEDA employs dynamic control to automatically tune runtime parameters (such as the scheduling parameters of each stage) as well as to manage load, for example, by performing adaptive load shedding. Decomposing services into a set of stages also enables modularity and code reuse, as well as the development of debugging tools for complex event-driven applications.

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