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by raxxorraxor 1426 days ago
Ah, the terminology is indeed completely unfamiliar to me. I didn't understand events for holding persistent data. I was thinking about event busses. I would imagine reconstructing data from a list of event is quite difficult in many circumstances.
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If your entire application is based on event sourcing, it's usually not difficult, just slow (which is why the article talks of snapshots as well).

Of course, if you are misusing the pattern, you've got needless complexity no matter how you slice it.