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49: Event Sourcing in PHP
Panelists:
Beau Simensen
Beau Simensen
Ross Tuck
Ross Tuck
Shawn McCool
Shawn McCool
Willem-Jan Zijderveld
Willem-Jan Zijderveld
July 10 2016

We spend much of our time as developers managing the state in our applications. There are many different approaches and philosophies attributed to reading, mutating and storing state.

The Event Sourcing pattern is an approach to managing application st

What is Event Sourcing?

Event Sourcing is thinking of application state as a frames in a video, we could "scrub" through different states of the application.

Every time something happens that is relevant, you just record what it was, then you tie t