Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Features
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up for free
Search
Search
Event sourcing in Laravel (full stack brussels)
Search
Sponsored
·
Ship Features Fearlessly
Turn features on and off without deploys. Used by thousands of Ruby developers.
→
Freek Van der Herten
April 04, 2019
Programming
360
1
Share
Event sourcing in Laravel (full stack brussels)
Freek Van der Herten
April 04, 2019
More Decks by Freek Van der Herten
See All by Freek Van der Herten
Uncharted packages (ode aan de code)
freekmurze
0
62
Uncharted packages (Laravel Live Denmark)
freekmurze
0
250
I shall define this only once
freekmurze
0
480
An Introduction to Snapshot testing
freekmurze
0
560
Event Sourcing In Laravel
freekmurze
0
280
Building a realtime dashboard with Laravel Livewire (PHPKonf)
freekmurze
0
860
A tour behind the scenes of Oh Dear (PHP Benelux)
freekmurze
2
910
A practical look at multitenancy in Laravel
freekmurze
1
400
A practical look at multitenancy in Laravel (Laracon US)
freekmurze
0
780
Other Decks in Programming
See All in Programming
一度始めたらやめられない開発効率向上術 / Findy あなたのdotfilesを教えて!
k0kubun
4
3k
属人化しないコード品質の作り方_2026.04.07.pdf
muraaano
0
190
PHP で mp3 プレイヤーを実装しよう
m3m0r7
PRO
0
280
YJITとZJITにはイカなる違いがあるのか?
nakiym
0
220
AI時代のPhpStorm最新事情 #phpcon_odawara
yusuke
0
190
GitHubCopilotCLIをはじめよう.pdf
htkym
0
190
10年分の技術的負債、完済へ ― Claude Code主導のAI駆動開発でスポーツブルを丸ごとリプレイスした話
takuya_houshima
0
2.6k
ソフトウェア設計の結合バランス #phperkaigi
kajitack
0
140
2026_04_15_量子計算をパズルとして解く
hideakitakechi
0
110
運転動画を検索可能にする〜Cosmos-Embed1とDatabricks Vector Searchで〜/cosmos-embed1-databricks-vector-search
studio_graph
0
280
Vibe NLP for Applied NLP
inesmontani
PRO
0
440
CursorとClaudeCodeとCodexとOpenCodeを実際に比較してみた
terisuke
1
470
Featured
See All Featured
Visual Storytelling: How to be a Superhuman Communicator
reverentgeek
2
510
For a Future-Friendly Web
brad_frost
183
10k
First, design no harm
axbom
PRO
2
1.2k
Skip the Path - Find Your Career Trail
mkilby
1
110
A Soul's Torment
seathinner
6
2.7k
HDC tutorial
michielstock
2
630
A brief & incomplete history of UX Design for the World Wide Web: 1989–2019
jct
1
350
How to make the Groovebox
asonas
2
2.1k
Into the Great Unknown - MozCon
thekraken
41
2.4k
The Pragmatic Product Professional
lauravandoore
37
7.2k
Agile that works and the tools we love
rasmusluckow
331
21k
Bootstrapping a Software Product
garrettdimon
PRO
307
120k
Transcript
Getting started with event sourcing in Laravel
About me Freek Van der Herten Partner & developer at
Spatie @freekmurze https://murze.be https://ohdear.app
Spatie Since 2003 Websites, applications and webshops Team 9 awesome
human beings Specialisation Laravel, front-end development
Open Source Software
We create a lot of it ± 200 packages on
Packagist ± 2,000,000 downloads a month ± 30,000,000 total downloads All Postcardware!
Highlights Popular laravel-backup laravel-medialibrary laravel-permission New laravel-query-builder laravel-blade-x
https://spatie.be/open-source
https://spatie.be/open-source/postcards
Let's talk about event sourcing
Talk overview Theory Laravel Event Projector demo Eventsauce demo
Theory
Traditional application Write data in database An update means overwriting
the old data The old data cannot be accessed anymore
APPLICATION DATABASE TABLE value X
APPLICATION DATABASE TABLE value X value Y
Event Sourced Application The application will fire off events Events
will get written in a dedicated store Events are passed to consumers that create projections Aggregate, Aggregate Root...
APP EVENTS Event Event 1
APP EVENTS Event Event 1 Event 2
APP EVENTS Event Event 1 Event 2 Event 3
APP CONSUMER EVENTS PROJECTION Event Event 1 Event 2 Event
3
APP CONSUMER CONSUMER 2 EVENTS PROJECTION Event Event 1 Event
2 Event 3 ANOTHER PROJECTION
APP CONSUMER CONSUMER 2 EVENTS PROJECTION Event Event 1 Event
2 Event 3 ANOTHER PROJECTION
APP CONSUMER CONSUMER 2 EVENTS PROJECTION Event Event 1 Event
2 Event 3 Event 4 ANOTHER PROJECTION
Event Sourced Application Auditing requirements Extra reports needed Recording the
unhappy path There is some setup required
Laravel Event Projector
Laravel Event Projector Package made by Spatie It's not full
event sourcing, it focuses on projections Beautifully integrated into Laravel Easy to get started with
https://docs.spatie.be/laravel-event-projector
Demo
Eventsauce
Eventsauce Package made by Frank De Jonge Focuses on aggregates
Framework agnostic Separate Laravel bindings package available Very powerful, adds complexity
https://eventsauce.io/docs/
APP Subtract $1000
AGGREGATE ROOT REPOSITORY UUID PAYLOAD TIME APP Subtract $1000
AGGREGATE ROOT REPOSITORY UUID PAYLOAD TIME APP Subtract $1000 RETRIEVE
Subtract $1000 AGGREGATE ROOT (empty)
AGGREGATE ROOT REPOSITORY ABC-123 Subtract 1000 11:12 AM UUID PAYLOAD
TIME APP Subtract $1000 RETRIEVE Subtract $1000 AGGREGATE ROOT ACCOUNTS CONSUMER -$1000 (empty) PERSIST
AGGREGATE ROOT REPOSITORY ABC-123 Subtract 1000 11:12 AM UUID PAYLOAD
TIME APP RETRIEVE Subtract $750 AGGREGATE ROOT ACCOUNTS -$1000 CONSUMER Subtract $750 Subtract $1000 PERSIST
AGGREGATE ROOT REPOSITORY ABC-123 Subtract 1000 11:12 AM ABC-124 Subtract
750 01:17 PM UUID PAYLOAD TIME APP RETRIEVE Subtract $750 AGGREGATE ROOT ACCOUNTS -$1750 CONSUMER Subtract $750 Subtract $1000 PERSIST
AGGREGATE ROOT REPOSITORY ABC-123 Subtract 1000 11:12 AM ABC-124 Subtract
750 01:17 PM UUID PAYLOAD TIME APP RETRIEVE AGGREGATE ROOT ACCOUNTS -$1750 CONSUMER Subtract $1250 Subtract $1000 Subtract $750 Subtract $1250 More Money Needed PERSIST
AGGREGATE ROOT REPOSITORY ABC-123 Subtract 1000 11:12 AM ABC-124 Subtract
750 01:17 PM ABC-125 Subtract 1250 05:51 PM ABC-126 More Money Needed 05:51 PM UUID PAYLOAD TIME ACCOUNTS APP CONSUMER CONSUMER 2 PROPOSED LOANS Subtract $1250 -$3000 RETRIEVE PERSIST Subtract $1000 Subtract $750 Subtract $1250 More Money Needed AGGREGATE ROOT
Demo
In closing
Summary Laravel Event Projector Easy to use package to get
started with projections Hooks into Laravel's native events Replay capabilities No aggregates
Summary EventSauce Framework agnostic Support for aggregates, process modelling No
replay capabilities out of the box https://github.com/spatie/laravel-eventsauce
Writes are harder, reads are easier
Event sourcing makes the easy things harder… …and the harder
things easier — Frank De Jonge
Larabank https://github.com/spatie/larabank-traditional https://github.com/spatie/larabank-event-projector https://github.com/spatie/larabank-eventsauce
Resources https://kickstarter.engineering/event-sourcing-made-simple-4a2625113224 https://github.com/spatie/laravel-event-projector https://github.com/eventsaucephp/eventsauce https://github.com/prooph
Thank you! https://speakerdeck.com/freekmurze/event-sourcing-full-stack-brussels https://spatie.be/open-source https://murze.be https://ohdear.app