Matt Macchia is a seasoned tech executive and leader of Eventual Tsunami. Starting his career on the original launch team for Hotwire.com with Spencer Rascoff, and more recently leading teams at Event Store, IBM and Audacy. With a passion for delivering features and products driven from our open-source community.
Selecting the right source of truth is crucial, especially in event sourcing. The decision between a State-Transition database and a Traditional Database, like PostgreSQL, is fundamental. This post explores the strengths and weaknesses of both, emphasizing PostgreSQL's role in the relational database domain.
Event Sourcing isn't a one-size-fits-all solution; it's a versatile approach that adapts to the unique demands of various industries. Explore some of the top usecases that drive businesses to first adopt event sourcing. And understand if it's right for your business.
In the world of software innovation, Event Sourcing stands out as a transformative force, turning data into an unchangeable narrative that shapes the core of your business. It's not just a technical choice; it's a strategic business decision for resilience, adaptability, and an unwavering audit trail. Event Sourcing isn't merely about managing data; it's about propelling your business into the future with a dynamic, trustworthy asset.
As an architectural pattern, event sourcing is a paradigm shift in how you think about data. In the event sourcing methodology, everything is an event that is to be persisted. Leading to the concept of immutability, Event Sourcing challenges the traditional CRUD model, turning events into first class citizens.