April 2020
Intermediate to advanced
292 pages
6h 50m
English
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Chapter 4Projecting Data into Useful Shapes
Tell me how many times this dream has played out for you. You’ve snapped your fingers and now you have your dream job. There you are, heading in to your first day of work. This is it! Your. Dream. Job. You look down at the nameplate on your office door, and what title does it say just below your name?
Auditor.
What? You haven’t had this dream? Well, neither have our users. So while storing all of our application state as a linear log of what has happened sounds pretty amazing, how do we turn that log into a user interface that isn’t just a linear log of everything that has happened in our system? How do we make it not just look like an audit trail?
When I first got into microservices and the idea that ...