Event sourcing is more of a fancy term which I first saw in the Laracon talk by Dries Vints. It was a half-an-hour-long video. I saw something interesting about the term and let it play in the…

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Event sourcing is an architectural pattern that logs events in chronological order, providing a complete history of state changes. Unlike traditional systems that store only the current state, event sourcing offers a full audit trail and simplifies debugging and recovery by allowing the replay of events. It's particularly useful for applications that need to track changes over time, though it adds complexity and has a steep learning curve. The author shares experiences using event sourcing in Laravel applications and discusses when it might be overkill for simpler projects.

I may start using Event Sourcing in all my Laravel applications