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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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Upgrading Lunar Frontiers

The best way to experience the shift away from experimental mode, where everything is stored in memory and destroyed once the application stops, is to make these changes to a real application. In this section of the chapter, you’ll take the Lunar Frontiers game from the previous chapter and upgrade it with a durable event log using Postgres. You’ll also use this opportunity to clean up and refactor a few things.

First, copy the lunar_frontiers_1 application directory to a new one, lunar_frontiers_2. You’ll be working out of this new directory for the next few sections of the chapter.

The Commanded library comes with a pluggable system for storing the event log. This means you can easily write an adapter for your favorite ...

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