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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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Securing Command Paths

It’s worth remembering that commands don’t exist.[35] They’re short-lived requests made to an aggregate. If the command is accepted, then the aggregate will emit the corresponding events. Reality hasn’t been affected until something emits an event.

This means that securing the command path becomes very much like securing access to a microservice (and many organizations and libraries actually use microservices as the entry point for commands). You’ll want to be certain that only those entities authorized to submit commands to your application can do so. No matter what identity is responsible for submitting a command, nothing should be able to bypass the validation performed by the aggregate.

Securing microservices is ...

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