Talk: Event Sourcing - You are doing it wrong

"Every microservice get's its own database and then use Kafka" is a typical and naive advise, when reading about eventsourcing. If you approach this architectural style this way, you will probably have a really awful time ahead.

Eventsourcing and CQRS are two very useful and popular patterns when dealing with data and microservices. We often find in our customer's projects, that both have a severe impact on your future options and the maintainability of your architecture. Presentations and articles on both topics are often superficial and do not tackle real world problems like security and compliance requirements.

This combination of half-knowledge and technical confusion leads to many projects that either refactor back to a 'non-eventsourced' architecture or reduce eventsourcing to a message queue.

In this talk, David summarizes his experience while applying eventsourcing and CQRS accros multiple large financial and insurance companies over the last 5 years. He covers the Good, the Not so Good, and the 'oh my god...all abandon ships!' when doing eventsourcing in the real world...and shows how he solved these issues.