Implementing Domain-Driven Design

Event Sourcing

Sometimes the business cares about tracking changes that occur to the objects in a domain model. There are varying levels of change tracking interest, and ways to support each level. Typically businesses have chosen to track only when some entity is created and last modified, and by whom. It’s a relatively simple and straightforward approach to change tracking. This, however, doesn’t provide any information about the individual changes in the model.

With an increased desire for even more change tracking, the business demands more metadata. It begins to care also about the individual operations that were executed over time. Maybe it even wants to understand how long certain operations took to execute. Those desires lead to the need ...