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Event Sourcing • Greg Young • GOTO 2014

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Databases & storageSoftware architecture & design

What it is

Greg Young, who coined CQRS, gives an in-depth GOTO 2014 talk on what event sourcing is, when it is valuable and when it is not, along with its trade-offs and common misconceptions.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN commenters list it among the best introductions to event sourcing and use it to illustrate storing read-only events instead of mutating state.

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What HN commenters said

  1. “Here is my short list of best introductions to practical FP, strategies and tactics”

    Listed among best introductions to practical functional programming.

    Leftium, 2023-02 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: Just Finished Stroustrup's 'Practice and Principles'. What Next?”

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Topics: event sourcing, cqrs, greg young, software architecture, immutable events

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