Event Sourcing in Production: Three Years of Append-Only Truth

Event sourcing solves some auditability problems cleanly and creates new ones around schema evolution and event replay performance. An honest retrospective.

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Tags

• event-sourcing
• architecture
• cqrs
• production
• retrospective