An Abridged Guide to Event Sourcing

Although event sourcing (and sister pattern CQRS) has been gaining traction in recent years, many engineers are struggling when implementing it for the first time. While there’s plenty of material on the subject, most of it is too broad or theoretical, and engineers often end up having to rediscover suitable approaches and techniques.

This talk introduces practical aspects of building such systems learned from our experiences at Wix. We’ll walk through the design and implementation of a simple event-sourced system, covering the event model, underlying persistence and suitable code layering.

Session length

40 minutes

Language of the presentation

English

Target audience

Beginner: No need to have prior knowledge

Who is your session intended to

Working engineers scratching their heads when implementing such systems.
A full blown example in Scala will be provided (although code isn't really a major part of this talk, it's more architecture-focused).

Speaker

Tomer Gabel (Wix)