Event Sourcing: Read Models are Overrated

29 Jun 2019

Schema migrations have been a persistent pain point for our team as we move toward an event-driven architecture. The operational overhead of replaying events from Kafka in order to populate read models in Elasticsearch is tedious, hard to automate, and prone to human-error.

Needless to say, I was intrigued when I came across this talk by David Schmitz (funny guy, btw) that suggests you may not need static read models in some cases. By creating many smaller event streams (e.g. one per entity), you can get good performance replaying events in realtime.

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