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One of the largest financials institutions in the world based some of their main trading systems in Event Sourcing with serialized object storage. It's a massiv
by alecco 5y ago
One of the largest financials institutions in the world based some of their main trading systems in Event Sourcing with serialized object storage. It's a massive pain. But the dogma/mantra and sunk cost fallacy pull make any attempt at moving away from it being outright mocked.
Want to see the current state of a trade? Open and deserialize 50 objects and then manually make these classes pick the merging of all those fields.
Not like there are multiple database products out there with temporal support. Let's reinvent the wheel, baby!
- revel 5y agoLiterally every major bank follows this model and has done for at least a decade There is nothing off the shelf with the level of sophistication you see in those systems.