Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderI agree with the author completely. I worked on a fairly large system using event sourcing, it was a never-ending nightmare. Maybe with better tooling someday it will be usable, but not now. Events are pretty much a database commit log. This is extremely space innefficient to keep around. And not nearly use useful as you might think. Re-runs need to happen pretty often as you change how events are handled. Even in our local CI environment, it eventually took…
I've worked with several event sourcing systems and was even seduced into implementing one out of sheer hubris once. These problems are ever present in every ES project I've had the misfortune of coming into contact with. It doesn't even mention the worst part that comes afterwards, when you realize after all of that pain that it is only used by a single person in the company to generate a noncritical report comparing a meaningless KPI that could have been…
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 774
- Total comments
- 276
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-02-03 | Event Sourcing is HardFirst breakout · Best thread | goostavos | 485 | 157 |
| 2021-11-30 | Event Sourcing Is Hard (2019)Latest 20+ point return | swyx | 286 | 119 |
| 2025-10-20 | Don't Let the Internet Dupe You, Event Sourcing Is Hard | birdculture | 3 | 0 |