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0 pointsaddaon3mo ago0 comments

But the event store is also your undo stack, then. Keeping it infinite (or deliberately trimming it at application launch) improves user experience.

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mbreese3mo ago

Only for some use cases. I don’t think the parent is arguing for forcing compaction. I’d personally use this with periodic compaction (cronjob), but I can see the utility either way.

throwup2383mo ago

You can selectively compact the journal to only compact the numerous GUI events leaving domain events uncompacted (I do this for a CAD app I develop)

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

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mbreese3mo ago

Only for some use cases. I don’t think the parent is arguing for forcing compaction. I’d personally use this with periodic compaction (cronjob), but I can see the utility either way.

throwup2383mo ago

You can selectively compact the journal to only compact the numerous GUI events leaving domain events uncompacted (I do this for a CAD app I develop)

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse