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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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Saying “Hello, Procedural World”

In your learning journey as you read this book and search for extra material, you’ll no doubt see architectures and designs that aren’t event-driven referred to as procedural or imperative. Other times these architectures are called stateful (or even state replication). Naming is hard and the more people involved in a community, the more competing names you find.

So, while imperative and procedural are not technically accurate as descriptions of non-event-sourced applications, they are often used as shorthand, so those terms are introduced here. Of all the labels out there, the only ones that provide any accuracy are event-sourced and non-event-sourced.

The classic “hello world” example prints a little text ...

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