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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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Reading Your Writes

In monolithic applications, it’s easy to take for granted that we can read the data we’ve written. When everything is in a single process, reading a projection created by the flow of events through aggregates is easy—just read the data.

But when applications are running at large scales, we can’t rely on the level of consistency offered by a monolith. Assume you’ve written your application as a monolith, and now you’re scaling the application out to multiple geographic regions. Your projection database is now replicated from a single replica leader (often unfortunately called the “master”). Your application writes to a local event stream which is then propagated to the cluster leader. Take a look at the following diagram ...

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