The Reactive Monolith – How to Move from CRUD to Event Sourcing • Hacker News Board

Post by ryandvm » Fri, Oct 01, 2021, 2:01 PM UTC

0xFACEFEED wrote: post #4

I feel bad for anyone who got sucked into event sourcing for general purpose applications. Like... I'm burning a candle for you right now. The event stream stuff makes sense in some specialized use cases (LMAX?) but for general purpose stuff? Oof, no. EDIT: Also, don't hate me folks, but any article that references Fowler should be looked at with just a little bit of suspicion. Not hating the guy but he's blown quite…

> any article that references Fowler should be looked at with just a little bit of suspicion

Indeed. I don't doubt he's a very clever guy, but all of my most miserable gigs involved phalanxes of architecture astronauts endlessly bike-shedding every design session with the platitudes of Fowler et al.

Post by jbywater » Fri, Oct 01, 2021, 7:33 PM UTC

XeFVZZXLu45nfG wrote: post #75

diggs wrote: post #73

My first experience with event sourcing was having a new hire at a previous company try to shill it. It was a smaller company and he had previously built a career consulting on ES. Every problem we had he would come up with an argument for why ES would solve it. I soon learned he had zero technical ability, but was great at sounding credible to management. I liked to imagine him as a "seagull ES" practitioner. He fli…

Similar thing happened on a project I joined. Except this person not only forced ES onto the business but their own specific library for it https://github.com/johnbywater/eventsourcing The business eventually failed to due to this, due to slow implementation of simple features and many other issues with it. I will never use ES due to this project, it's pointless, anything you can do with it, you can do without it.

For the benefit for readers, of course I didn't force event sourcing on anybody.

The above allegation is utter bollocks, which apparently continues a stalking campaign by an ex-colleague who was forced to leave the company by the management.

This also happened FIVE YEARS ago, so the obsessiveness is disturbing.

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