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Event Sourcing Debate

Comments primarily debate whether a discussed system or approach equates to event sourcing, its trade-offs, practical viability, and relations to CQRS and event-driven architectures.

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EF CQRS facebook.pdf EventSourcing STM i.e YAGNI martinfowler.com DDD FP sourcing event events stream architecture es state offset eventual redis

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lll-o-lll • Feb 8, 2024 • View on HN

Isn’t this just Event Sourcing?

nuclearnice1 • Sep 30, 2021 • View on HN

What makes event sourcing poor for general purpose stuff?

Floegipoky • Sep 6, 2023 • View on HN

What does this have to do with event sourcing?

McMini • Apr 26, 2023 • View on HN

What are the key trade-offs in your approach vs doing event sourcing?

Liron • Sep 29, 2016 • View on HN

There's a whole section about event sourcing near the bottom :)

mateuszf • Sep 6, 2017 • View on HN

Isn't this just event sourcing?

RobAtticus • Apr 20, 2017 • View on HN

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by event sourcing. Can you elaborate?

tonyhb • Feb 9, 2017 • View on HN

Maybe you're looking for event sourcing? It's great in theory but for all the reading I've done I haven't been able to find any case studies on it working well in practice

globular-toast • Dec 29, 2024 • View on HN

Event sourcing? I thought that was a very DDD thing.

trampi • Dec 25, 2018 • View on HN

Sounds like https://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/EventSourcing.html