Adding Event Sourcing to an existing PHP project (for the right reasons)
Talk presented at
SymfonyDay 2018 (Verona)
Slides available
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“Event Sourcing”, along with “CQRS” (Command Query Responsibility Segregation), have recently become trending terms, and now there is so much theory, blog posts and talks about them.
However, most of these deal with the problem starting from an utopian assumption: having to write a project from scratch (greenfield), but at the same time with a high domain complexity right from the start, enough to justify the use of a complex technique like event sourcing and CQRS, which carry a fair amount of inherent complexity.