A lightning introduction to event sourcing

1 min readDec 20, 2017

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On December 7th 2017 I gave a talk at Tech Exeter about event sourcing.

In a nutshell, event sourcing is about changing your persistence strategy to be event-centric as opposed to data-centric.

Tech Exeter is a community, conference and co-working space for tech people in Exeter, UK.

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