no dogma podcast #155 David Guida, Event Sourcing
Jul 16, 2021
32:58
Summary
David Guida and I discuss event sourcing, what it is, its uses and drawbacks, and how to get started.
Details
Who he is, what he does. Overview of event sourcing, everything is an event, aggregates and domain driven design. A practical example; multiple subscribers; the query model and storing calculated data. Why not use a database. Correcting an error in a historical event. Using the stream on a new application. Scenarios where event sourcing applies. Technologies to use, Event Store, Marten, Apache Kafka, CosmosDb. Using Azure. Versioning data, and changing shapes of data. Libraries to make this easier. Future of event sourcing. How to get started. How to find David.