Shawn McCool

In this session, Shawn McCool, an experienced software engineer and domain modeling advocate, dives into the transformative world of event sourcing. He shares his journey from discovering domain events while working on Laravel.io to creating the Event Sourcery course. Shawn explains the key differences between event sourcing and CRUD, while discussing the nuances of CQRS and eventual consistency. He emphasizes the importance of modeling intent and context with events and advocates for short-lived aggregates to simplify versioning and retention challenges.