Dealing with Events and Their Evolution
As software systems grow and adapt to new requirements, managing the evolution of data structures becomes critical. In this chapter, we will explore strategies to handle event versioning in event-sourced systems. By the end of this chapter, you will know how to do the following:
- Implement basic event versioning techniques
- Apply strategies such as upcasting and weak schemas for managing evolving events
- Leverage advanced approaches such as content negotiation and copy-replace for more complex scenarios
While we aim to introduce you to practical solutions, it’s important to acknowledge that event versioning is a vast and nuanced topic. Due to space constraints and the focused scope of this book, we cannot go too deep into all aspects of this subject. However, the strategies and examples provided here will equip you with a solid foundation to start managing event evolution effectively. For those who wish to...
