The Good, The Bad and the Ugly of Event Sourcing

1. Dennis Doomen | @ddoomen | Aviva Solutions | The Continuous Improver

2. Web Application Command Service Query Processor ChangeUser EmailHandler User Unit of Work User Projector DAL Query Handler Read DB Write DB ChangeUserEmailCommand Execute query Get<User>(identity) Invoke method Event Store Load(events) Apply Get changes Dispatcher Events Handle(UserEmailChangedEvent) Submit changes History Query Language / SQL Dennis Doomen | @ddoomen | The Continuous Improver

3. The Good

4. Domain Event Store Events App RDBMS Events Projection EventsProjection Projection Projector Optimized for specific queries Separate projections database NoSQL Projector Projection-specific storage Projector HTML Raw SQL, Dapper or OR/M Run asynchronously Great for sharding Dennis Doomen | @ddoomen | The Continuous Improver

5. Events Transaction 6 Transaction 5 Transaction 4 Transaction 3 Transaction 2 Transaction 1 Temporal Projector Read Store Time Projected until this point Immutable, thus auditable and SOX compliance Dennis Doomen | @ddoomen | The Continuous Improver

6. Domain Event Store Events App Events Projection EventsProjection Projection Projector Application projections RDBMS Reporting Projector Traditional reporting model Asynchronous OLAP Dennis Doomen | @ddoomen | The Continuous Improver

7. StreamId: User-Dedo, Rev: 5 Persisted State Changes StreamId: User-Dedo, Rev: 4 GrantedRoleEvent PasswordChangedEvent StreamId: User-Dedo, Rev: 4 StreamId: User-Dedo, Rev: 3 UserCreatedEvent GrantedRoleEvent PhoneNumberAddedEven t PasswordChangedEvent StreamId: User-Dedo, Rev: 5 RoleRevokedEvent StreamId: User-Dedo, Rev: 6 GrantedRoleEvent Time StreamId: User-Dedo, Rev: 7 PasswordChangedEvent Dennis Doomen | @ddoomen | The Continuous Improver

8. Changes 1 2 3 6297 6298 6298 Query Data Documents Groups Users Objects Folders User Interface Changes Queries Changes 1 2 3 6299 6300 6301 Query Data Documents Groups Users Objects Folders User Interface ChangesQueries Node Node Replication Process Dennis Doomen | @ddoomen | The Continuous Improver

9. Events Aggregate Root Entity Entity Value Object Aggregate Root Aggregate Root Aggregate Root Entity Value Object Value Object Dennis Doomen | @ddoomen | The Continuous Improver

10. The Bad

11. The pains of wrongly designed aggregates

12. • Designing your domain based on ownership • Relying on eventual consistent projections • Bad choice in functional keys (e.g. username vs ID) • Running business logic after an domain event is raised • Domain-specific value types in events • Fast growing aggregates

13. Finding the right boundaries

14. First • Ask the difficult questions about consistency • Understand the real world Then use these guidelines • Driven by invariants, not composition • Only consistent within aggregate • Small aggregates • Reference by identity.

15. Practical challenges

16. public class Order { private Status status; public void Cancel() { if (status == Status.InProgress) { Apply(new OrderCanceledEvent()); } } private void When(OrderCanceledEvent e) { status = Status.Canceled; } } In single classes Dennis Doomen | @ddoomen | The Continuous Improver

17. public partial class Order { private Status status; public void Cancel() { if (status == Status.InProgress) { Apply(new OrderCanceledEvent()); } } } In partial classes public partial class Order { private void When(OrderCanceledEvent e) { status = Status.Canceled; } } Dennis Doomen | @ddoomen | The Continuous Improver

18. public class Order { private OrderState state; public void Cancel() { if (state.Status == Status.InProgress) { state.Apply(new OrderCanceledEvent()); } } } In separate classes internal class OrderState { public Status Status { get; set; } private void When(OrderCanceledEvent e) { Status = Status.Canceled; } } Dennis Doomen | @ddoomen | The Continuous Improver

19. Risk Assessment Level Changed Risk Assessment Team Member Removed Risk Assessment Team Member Removed Risk Assessment Level Demoted Versus Dennis Doomen | @ddoomen | The Continuous Improver

20. Assembly AvSol.Domain.dll Namespace AvSol.Domain.RiskAssessments Type RiskAssessmentLevelChanged Assembly AvSol.ThreadAssessment.dll Namespace: AvSol.ThreadAssessment.Risks.Domain Type RiskAssessmentLevelDowngraded Dennis Doomen | @ddoomen | The Continuous Improver

21. The Ugly

22. Domain Event Store Events App Query Store Data Access Projectors Events API Controller Projections Events Figuring out the right testing scope

23. Projection rebuilding pains

24. Rebuilding time with large databases • Side by side rebuilding (a.k.a. blue- green) • Functional archivability and archiving • Projection tracking and prediction • Clear separation between critical and auxiliary data -> prioritization • Partitioning.

25. Dynamic rebuilding • After bugs, schema changes, etc • Manual or automatic (e.g. hashes) Projection consistency • Idempotency of projections • Projection autonomy results in more duplication.

26. Projections that crash • Column constraints (e.g. data truncation) • Changes in data invariants (null vs non-null in event versions) • Unexpected projection dependencies • Partial replays.

27. Projection dependencies • Synchronous -> asynchronous and existing bugs • Assuming order of events Bugs • Causing duplicate child records • Causing large event streams • Incorrect caching strategy (e.g. on lookups) • Identity case-sensitivity • Incomplete SQL-backed event store reads.

28. Tips & Tricks

29. • Liquid Projections – Designed as a library – Promotes fully autonomous projections – Local tracking – ETA calculations • NEventStore • GetEventStore • Apache Kafka?

30. • The Good, The Bad and the Ugly of Event Sourcing http://www.continuousimprover.com/search/label/event%20sourcing • Effective Aggregate Design (Vaughn Vernon) http://dddcommunity.org/library/vernon_2011/ • Liquid Projections https://github.com/LiquidProjections • Distributed Event Sourcing (Slides) http://www.slideshare.net/dennisdoomen/building-occasionally- connected-applications-using-event-sourcing • Data schema changes in an event sourced system (paper) http://files.movereem.nl/2017saner-eventsourcing.pdf

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