- Speakers
Hannes Lowette
- Description
In software, we are often passing messages around between components, services and even systems. We do so in synchronous and asynchronous ways. But have you stopped to think that our data storage also acts as message passing? Everything we write to storage is, in essence, a message for our future system.
If we use Event Sourcing as our persistence pattern, we are making this message passing in time much more explicit in our software's design. We also align it a lot closer to how we model our business processes to begin with.
This brings with it a lot of benefits. For instance, we are sacrificing a lot less information compared to normalized relational databases. We also enable point-in-time capabilities for our entities. And from a business point-of-view, we are much more likely to be able to fulfill future feature requests based on old data.
This doesn't have to be complex. In this talk, Hannes will give an introduction to what Event Sourcing is, how to fit it into a CQRS architecture, and what design patterns you can use to unlock its full potential.
About Hannes Lowette
Hannes is a developer, a coach and a father of 3. In software development, he has always had a passion for performance, databases, distributed systems and large scale applications. He's always weighing every solution's benefits against its drawbacks, reducing friction where possible. As a coach, he is enthusiastic about knowledge sharing, personal growth and building careers. Building a company culture around learning is what gets him out of bed. In his free time, when he’s not building LEGO® castles with his kids, he likes to spend time building guitars, playing chess, mountain biking and doing all round geeky stuff. You can often find him on stage at the conference afterparty, especially as the guitarist of Dylan Beattie & the Linebreakers.
