Re: Using Kafka for Event Sourcing

2015-01-12 Thread Yann Simon
up, as I am not sure you receive this email. Le Sun Jan 11 2015 at 5:34:17 PM, Yann Simon yann.simon...@gmail.com a écrit : Hi, after having read http://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-what-every-software-engineer-should-know-about-real-time-datas-unifying, I am considering

Using Kafka for Event Sourcing

2015-01-11 Thread Yann Simon
Hi, after having read http://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-what-every-software-engineer-should-know-about-real-time-datas-unifying, I am considering Kafka for an application build around CQRS and Event Sourcing. Disclaimer: I read the documentation but do not have any

Re: Using Kafka for Event Sourcing

2015-01-11 Thread Jay Kreps
Hey Yann, Yes, you can just make the retention infinite which will disable any deletion. What you describe with compaction might work, but wasn't exactly the intention. This type of event logging can work two ways: you can log the command or you can log the result of the command. In databases