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Agreed with your points but this article seems to present event-sourcing as a replacement for your database(s) and even makes claims about saving storage space,
by Nextgrid 3y ago
Agreed with your points but this article seems to present event-sourcing as a replacement for your database(s) and even makes claims about saving storage space, thus at least hinting at not using databases anymore.
- mrkeen 3y agoIt's a replacement for your source-of-truth, not your database(s). Although you're right about the article not explicitly mentioning slurping the events back into a DB. I suspect the reason is that there are plenty of articles which explain how to event-source from greenfield, but this is the first one I've seen which focuses on existing brownfield relational data - see the title. > makes claims about saving storage space I don't think that was the right reading about saving storage space: > We’ve been trying to optimise the storage size; we’ve made some sins of overriding and losing our precious business data I think it's his strawman RDBMS developer who optimised for saving storage space, and lost business data as a result. The suggested approach is: > We can optimise for information quality instead of its size.