May 2015
Intermediate to advanced
792 pages
22h 32m
English
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22 Event Sourcing
WHAT’S IN THIS CHAPTER?
- An introduction to event sourcing and the problems it solves
- Guidance and examples for building event-sourced domain models
- How to build an Event Store
- Examples of building Event Stores on top of RavenDB and SQL Server
- Examples of using Greg Young’s Event Store
- A discussion of how CQRS synergizes with event sourcing
- A list of trade-offs to help you understand when event sourcing is a good choice and when you should avoid it
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Bringing a competitive business advantage and exciting technical challenges, it’s clear why a storage mechanism called event sourcing has gained a lot of popularity in recent years. Because a full history of activity is stored, event sourcing allows businesses to deeply understand many aspects of their data, including detailed behavior of their customers. With this historical information, new and novel queries can be asked that inform product development, marketing strategies, and other business decisions. Using event sourcing, you can determine what the state of the system looked like at any given point in time and how it reached any of those states. For many domains, this is a game-changing capability.
Many systems today store only the current state ...
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