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Event Sourcing is a pattern of storing an object's state as a series of events. Each time the object is updated a new event is written to an append-only log. When the object is loaded from the database, the events are replayed in order, reapplying the necessary changes.

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The benefit of this approach is that it stores a full history of the object. This can be valuable for debugging, auditing, building new models, and a variety of other situations. It is also a technique that can be used to solve the dual-write problem when working with event-driven architectures.

RELATED RESOURCES
► What is the Dual Write Problem?: https://youtu.be/FpLXCBr7ucA
► Event Sourcing: https://cnfl.io/4breRfT
► Event Sourcing and Event Storage with Apache Kafka®: https://cnfl.io/3w0n627
► Microservices: An Introduction https://cnfl.io/3ZMt3up
► Event-Driven Microservices Architecture: https://cnfl.io/48FSYbj
► Migrate from Monoliths to Event-Driven Microservices: https://cnfl.io/3tsqlhu
► Get Started on Confluent Developer: https://cnfl.io/48FnKRB

CHAPTERS

00:00 - Intro

00:22 - How are objects stored in traditional databases?

01:01 - What is an audit log, and why is it useful?

01:35 - Do audit logs create duplicated data?

01:57 - Should the audit log be used as the source of truth?

02:23 - What is event sourcing?

03:27 - What are some advantages of event sourcing?

04:28 - Does event sourcing solve the dual-write problem?

05:02 - What are some disadvantages of event sourcing?

05:20 - Closing

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