[_tkzm]

99,99% new people that come to event sourcing and 9/10 of those who have been in the event sorucing already, make the huge mystake of taking event store concepts from other people that took it from other people and in the end that is where everyone fails. even big names like greg and his praised "eventstore" project. if you are new to ES, great, you have no baggage. do not read any technicalities about the event store or try to use any existing library for it(the underlying storage engine does not matter, mysql, postgres, rocks...). come up with your own solution and you will have zero ES problems. why? well, the entire concept of event store that is being flown out there is completely flawed and if you implement it, it will cost you a lot of money and time to unfuck yourself later on.

[zbentley]

There are a lot of assertions there about poor quality, "everyone" failing, and concepts being completely flawed.

Could you explain the rationale for those assertions, and expand on why rolling your own avoids those pitfalls?