Event Sourcing Without a Framework: What You Actually Need, What You Don’t, and the Parts Nobody Warns You About (opens in new tab)

Most Java tutorials reach for Axon before explaining the moving parts underneath it. This is the framework-agnostic treatment — the event store, the snapshot problem, schema evolution, replay, and the distinction between an event store and an event bus that most guides quietly skip. A certain pattern repeats itself in Java teams discovering event sourcing …