RailsConf 2019 - Event Sourcing made Simple by Philippe Creux

RailsConf 2019 - Event Sourcing made Simple by Philippe Creux _______________________________________________________________________________________________ Cloud 66 - Pain Free Rails Deployments Cloud 66 for Rails acts like your in-house DevOps team to build, deploy and maintain your Rails applications on any cloud or server. Get $100 Cloud 66 Free Credits with the code: RailsConf-19 ($100 Cloud 66 Free Credits, for the new user only, valid till 31st December 2019) Link to the website: https://cloud66.com/rails?utm_source=... Link to sign up: https://app.cloud66.com/users/sign_in... _______________________________________________________________________________________________ Event Sourcing provides a full history of actions allowing us to understand how we get got there. Events can be replayed to backfill a new column, to fix a bug or to travel back in time. It is often described as a complex pattern that requires immutable databases, micro services and asynchronous communication. In this talk, I will introduce you to Event Sourcing and present the simple framework we’ve built at Kickstarter. It runs on our Rails monolith, uses ActiveRecord models and a SQL database. And yet, it gives us super powers.