Stop Overwriting Your Data: Event Sourcing in Laravel 🕰️

Short summary

A practical tutorial on implementing Event Sourcing in Laravel using the Spatie package, replacing traditional CRUD with immutable event storage. Covers storing events, building read-optimized projections, and the engineering ROI: perfect audit logs, state time-travel, and decoupled read/write architectures. The author notes the added complexity is justified for financial ledgers and audit-heavy platforms.

• •Event Sourcing stores every state change as an immutable event instead of overwriting current state
• •Projections provide fast read models while the events table remains the source of truth
• •Replaying events rebuilds corrupted projections perfectly; trade-off is increased architectural complexity

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