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 ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access