Event Sourcing explained

The internet contains many confusing articles that mix Event Sourcing with EDA and CQRS. Let’s see what it is and what not.

Anton Stöckl
ITNEXT
Published in
11 min readSep 9, 2022

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I’ll probably not describe anything in this article that has not been written about 100 times. Sadly, as Event Sourcing gains more and more popularity, for each good article another five misleading articles are published. Partially because some people try to use Kafka as an Event Store. I have recently written about that:

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