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Greg Young - CQRS and Event Sourcing - Code on the Beach 2014

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What it is

Greg Young's Code on the Beach 2014 talk on CQRS and event sourcing. He argues mature domains are built on facts that occurred rather than current state, and covers the business and technical benefits.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN developers recommend it as the talk that changed how they model systems, and as a clear intro to event sourcing's motivations.

  • 4 people recommended it
  • 4 different months
  • 2 strong recommendations
  • first 2016, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “really made an impact on me”

    Greg Young's talk on event sourcing.

    stock_toaster, 2016-12 · Strong recommendation · in “Talks that changed the way I think about programming”

  2. “forever changed how I think about modeling systems, preserving history”

    Clear walkthrough of problems event sourcing solves and new use cases.

    ssalka, 2022-06 · Strong recommendation · in “Ask HN: Best dev tool pitches of all time?”

  3. “Greg Young's presentation on event-sourcing is pretty great”

    Greg Young explains event sourcing, useful for pitching it.

    matthewaveryusa, 2018-12 · Recommendation · in “Wolkenkit 3.0 – a CQRS and event-sourcing framework for JavaScript”

  4. “For a fun introduction to this concept and the motivations behind it”

    Fun introduction to event sourcing and its motivations.

    rhizome31, 2019-02 · Recommendation · in “Event Sourcing is Hard”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: cqrs, event sourcing, greg young, domain modeling, software architecture

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