Event Sourcing

What is Event Sourcing?

Technique where all changes to an application state are stored as a sequence of immutable events

In other languages

한국어이벤트 소싱

데이터의 최종 상태만 저장하는 대신, 모든 상태 변화 과정을 일련의 이벤트로 순차적으로 저장하는 방식

日本語イベントソーシング

状態の最終結果のみを保存するのではなく、状態変化の全てのイベントを履歴として記録するデータ保持手法

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