Greg Young > Quotes

“Just like in real life, in code, a feature is triggered by an action (command) that results in a sequence of events that might or might not cause side effects.”
― Greg Young, Exploring CQRS and Event Sourcing

“By simply saving events, you are avoiding the complications associated with saving complex domain objects to a relational store; namely, the object-relational impedance mismatch.”
― Greg Young, Exploring CQRS and Event Sourcing

“There now is your insular city of the Manhattoes, belted round by wharves as Indian isles by coral reefs—commerce surrounds it with her surf. Right and left, the streets take you waterward. Its extreme downtown is the battery, where that noble mole is washed by waves, and cooled by breezes, which a few hours previous were out of sight of land. Look at the crowds of water-gazers there.”
― Greg Young, The Bowery Boys: Adventures in Old New York

“It was here on a rather hot evening in 2007 that Tom Meyers and I, good friends for many years, drank a bit of wine, opened up my new laptop, plugged in a karaoke microphone, and started recording a podcast on a whim.”
― Greg Young, The Bowery Boys: Adventures in Old New York

“Multiple subscribers can handle a specific event. Aggregates publish events to an event bus; handlers register for specific types of events on the event bus and then deliver the events to the subscriber.”
― Greg Young, Exploring CQRS and Event Sourcing