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Real-World Event Sourcing
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Real-World Event Sourcing

by Kevin Hoffman
March 2025
Intermediate to advanced
202 pages
4h 45m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Conventions Used in This Book

The conventions in this book are generally the same as in any other book from The Pragmatic Bookshelf, with a few things specific to this material.

Laws of Event Sourcing

Throughout the book, I’ll introduce the laws of event sourcing. Each one will appear in an exclamatory block like this one:

All Events Are Immutable and Past Tense

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Every event represents something that actually happened. An event cannot be modified and always refers to something that took place. Modeling the absence of a thing or a thing that didn’t actually occur may often seem like a good idea, but doing so can confuse both developers and event ...

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