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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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Migrating Event Streams

By now, a part of your brain should be permanently etched with the phrase, “the event log is immutable.” Events are the sole source of truth, and they cannot be changed. This chapter has made it pretty clear that, if you need to evolve events and commands, you do so by creating new ones because a new version of an event is actually a brand-new event.

A number of frameworks will let you migrate from V1 of an event to V2 “in-place” as the stream is being processed. This doesn’t break the rules so long as the meaning conveyed by the event doesn’t change.

Here lies the controversy. I contend that if you can migrate an event to a new version in-memory during processing, then you should also be able to migrate that event

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