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Event Sourcing

Event Sourcing

What is Event Sourcing - How it works and how it can look like in TypeScript.

move:elevator

September 10, 2020
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  1. Event Sourcing Why state is not a fact but a

    first class derivative of things that happened
  2. Who am I Frank Jogeleit @move:elevator GmbH Backend Engineer GitHub:

    https://github.com/fjogeleit Twitter: @FrankJogeleit
  3. What is Event Sourcing? • Its used for • most

    financial systems like Banking-, Trading-, Gambling Software • healthcare like medical files • legal contracts For sure nothing new
  4. What is Event Sourcing? Event Sourcing View Card created 3

    Items Added Item Removed Shipping Information Added Event Stream
  5. What is Event Sourcing? • Losing no Information • Explicit

    Time Information • No updates / deletes, only append • Who now which data will be valuable in the future? • State is a first class derivative What changes?
  6. What is Event Sourcing? • Past Data for future features

    • Reports • Events are use cases • Code reflect behavior • Recreate state at any point in time in the past New capabilities
  7. What is Event Sourcing? • Readmodels are a (persistent) representation

    of the current state of your application • Created as a left fold of your Event Stream in historical order • You can create as many Readmodels as you want for a single Event Stream • Readmodel persistence is independent from your Events, e.g. • InMemory for business decisions • Redis for short caches • SQL or NoSQL Databases for Views Readmodels
  8. What is CQRS? • Like the name already implies this

    pattern separate reading from writing operations • Your operation has return type void? -> Command • Your operation returns any value? -> Query • Queries must not change any state of your app • When you execute a query many times, the result has to be the same. (Assumed no other operations happened) Not much more as simple Pattern
  9. CQRS + Event Sourcing • Commands represent behavior and create

    one or many Events • The EventStore is the single source of truth • ReadModels could be used for business decisions(*) • Queries using Readmodels to return application state How they work together
  10. Side Effects • It many cases some kind of MessageBuses

    are used to implement the CQRS pattern • Beside a Command- and QueryBus you can use an EventBus to trigger some kind of Side Effect • An EventBus publish persisted (Domain) Events, so you can listen for it and execute related logic, for example • send a Registration E-Mail • trigger another related service to your event (Purchase- and Billing Service) EventBus / ProcessManager / Saga - you named it
  11. Trade Offs • Replaying many Events (really many) is time

    expensive, you can create snapshot but you also have to manage them • Creating Readmodels asynchronously can lead to concurrency problems • Events are immutable but in some cases like GDPR (DSVO) you have to anonymize Data • Event Sourcing with Files need additional work Event Sourcing is perfect, isn’t it? - Almost
  12. Event Sourcing by Example • Github: https://github.com/fjogeleit/event-sourcing-nodejs-example • NodeJS API

    Example with TypeScript, NestJS • Hosted Example http://event-sourcing-example.webdev-jogeleit.de/ • EventStore https://github.com/fjogeleit/event-store Bank Account API