They kind of go hand in hand so I find it a bit amusing to make the distinction and say that therefore event sourcing isn't racey. Fine, event sourcing by itsel

They kind of go hand in hand so I find it a bit amusing to make the distinction and say that therefore event sourcing isn't racey. Fine, event sourcing by itself isn't, but issuing the events is racey if anything listening to the events issues commands. I am quite confident every implementation of event sourcing is going to couple commands to the event stream unless it is merely making an audit log. In which case I guess it isn't really an architecture so much as an add on. You will replay commands as part of testing and debugging and that is where the fun comes in with race conditions.