[es7]

Did anyone else think this was satire for the first few minutes of reading it?

Calling databases global state and arguing why they shouldn’t be used was ridiculous enough that I wanted to call Poe’s Law here.

But it does look like the author was sincere. Event Sourcing is one of those cool things that seem great in theory but in my experience I’ve never seen it actually help teams produce good software quickly or reliably.

[Joker_vD]

Well, the databases are indeed mutable global state but even if you get rid of them, we would still continue to live in a single (i.e. global), mutable world of physical reality. So you have to bite that bullet somewhere, and DBMSs seem to be suited rather well for that.