85: Frank de Jonge - Event Sourcing for Beginners
- Author
- Adam Wathan
- Published
- Fri 30 Mar 2018
- Episode Link
- https://share.transistor.fm/s/0d6b3c06
Topics include:
- What does "event sourcing" even mean?
- What do terms like "aggregate" and "projection" mean in the context of event sourcing?
- What are the benefits of modeling something with event sourcing vs. a traditional state-based approach?
- How events are usually stored
- Why and how you might build multiple projections from a single event stream
- How events in event sourcing differ from the sort of events you might already be using in your projects
- A walkthrough of what the actual code would look like to model a "publish blog post" feature using event sourcing
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Links:
- Advanced Vue Component Design, Adam's upcoming course
- Frank's Blog
- EventSauce, Frank's new PHP event sourcing library
- Event Store event sourcing database
- "Event Sourcing" introduction by Martin Fowler
- "Event Sourcing" talk by Greg Young at GOTO 2014
