Event Sourcing: why using a message broker is a bad idea

Diogo Machado
6 min readApr 2, 2021
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I’ve seen many implementations of Event Sourcing that use a message broker to publish events to the read models. I’ve used that pattern and contributed to ES “frameworks” that implement that pattern. I think It is a bad idea. I’ll explain why:

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Diogo Machado

Software architect/developer. Developing software on the shoulders of giants.