Yeah there is also: https://wiki.c2.com/?ThePrevayler https://wiki.c2.com/?ThePrevayler (I see it footnoted in the Martin Fowler article) The idea of a transact

Yeah there is also: https://wiki.c2.com/?ThePrevayler https://wiki.c2.com/?ThePrevayler (I see it footnoted in the Martin Fowler article) The idea of a transaction log to reconstruct current state of the application and to allow point in time recovery is the foundation of databases. I worked with stock exchange software that worked this way (application state was shared memory + on-disk transaction log) 20 years ago and it was by no means a novel idea at that time.