Almost any event-sourcing system is built like this. Datomic is
(more-or-less) an example of this as it tracks all past transactions and
keeps indexes that are aggregates of the entire state of the DB.

In addition, Greg Young introduced a event store at CodeMesh 2013 that uses
this model: https://vimeo.com/84314441

Timothy

On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 10:15 PM, <piastkra...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am watching this video, Stuart Sierra's 2012 talk about Functional
> Design Patterns:
>
> http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Clojure-Design-Patterns
>
> His description of event sourcing for functional programming emphasizes:
> ---- recreate past states
> ---- recreate any past state by reducing over events
> ---- just store the inputs
> ---- cache any intermediate state
> ---- lost of flexibility
> ---- every event to the system is a data structure
> ---- problem: perhaps too many data structures
>
>
> I'm curious where is this pattern actually used?
>
>
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