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

Code on the Beach · 169.9K views · 2014-09-08 · 1:03:48

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Overview

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.

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

Recommended by 4 HN people across 4 months · HN mentions 2016–2022

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ssalka · 2022-06 · Strong recommendation

Not about dev tools per se, but this talk by Greg Young on event sourcing & CQRS forever changed how I think about modeling systems, preserving history, and supporting multiple read models/versioning. Really clear walkthrough of the types of problems that benefit from an event sourced system, how event sourcing addresses them, and exploration of new use cases it enables. [VIDEO]

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stock_toaster · 2016-12 · Strong recommendation

The following talk about event sourcing (not listed in the article)•, really made an impact on me: Event Sourcing - Greg Young [VIDEO] •: Not that I really expected it to be I guess.

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rhizome31 · 2019-02 · Recommendation

For a fun introduction to this concept and the motivations behind it, you may watch Greg Young's talk [VIDEO]

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