85: Frank de Jonge - Event Sourcing for Beginners

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

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