Greg Young - CQRS and Event Sourcing - Code on the Beach 2014

Why HN readers recommended it

HN developers recommend it as the talk that changed how they model systems, and as a clear intro to event sourcing's motivations.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Code on the Beach

Topic

event sourcing

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

5

Recommendation years in dataset

2016–2022

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• The following talk about event sourcing (not listed in the article)•, really made an impact on me: Event Sourcing - Greg Young [VIDEO] •: Not that I really expected it to be I guess.

• Not about dev tools per se, but this talk by Greg Young on event sourcing & CQRS forever changed how I think about modeling systems, preserving history, and supporting multiple read models/versioning. Really clear walkthrough of the types of problems that benefit from an event …

• I agree with you it's tough to sell CQRS, it's like trying to explain to someone that their business should use a database in one line. For me event-sourcing is a historical layer below your existing database that allows you to replay the sequence of …