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Huh. So banks really couldn't use event sourcing could they? Oh maybe they could so long as every failure was a new event.


I would assume that banks can be the best enterprise profile user of event sourcing. For traditional application we use the DB rollback for failure mitigation and banks are actually explicitly doing that. I think the event is already there and they are essentially using the same concept as event sourcing if I'm not mistaken.

And I think its much easier to make it work. There is a lot of associated domain and logic but the core of banks is a series of transactions (never worked so could be completely wrong) .. source, destination, amount. It looks poster child for event sourcing/log based architecture.




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