Your Aggregate Is Not a Table (opens in new tab)

When developers first encounter Event Sourcing, they bring their mental models with them. Years of working with objects and tables have shaped how they think about data. And so, when they hear the word "Aggregate," something familiar clicks in their brain: an Aggregate must be like an object, and objects map to tables. This intuition feels right. It's also wrong, and it leads to Event Sourcing that looks suspiciously like CRUD with extra steps.