Working with EventStoreDB

Learn about key event sourcing concepts, get started on your application, find tutorials and reference material.

• Run EventStoreDB
  • Installation
  • Configuration
  • Operations
  • Features
• Start developing your application
• FAQs
• Event Sourcing: What Is it and Why Use it?
• Use Cases
• Design – Beginner
• Design – Intermediate
• Design – Advanced

Run EventStoreDB

Installation

• Installation Guide
• Linux
• Docker
  • Single Node: docker run --name esdb-single-node -it -p 2113:2113 -p 1113:1113 eventstore/eventstore:latest --insecure --run-projections=All --enable-atom-pub-over-http
• Windows
• Windows how to guide
• Want to run Event Store in the Cloud? Head to the Cloud introduction

Configuration

• Configuration guide

Operations

• Upgrade
• Maintenance
• Diagnostics
• Metrics

Features

• Event streams
• Indexes
• Subscriptions
• Projections

Start developing your application

• Set up a client to connect to EventStoreDB
• Appending events
• Reading events
• Catch-up subscriptions
• Persistent subscriptions
• Projection management
• Get sample code in your preferred language
• Check out full code examples

FAQs

Event Sourcing: What Is it and Why Use it?

Introduction to event sourcing

Event Driven Architecture

CQRS

Why Event Sourcing? Part 1 - Growing Costs of Complex Data

Why Event Sourcing? Part 2 - The Unique Feature of Event Sourcing

Turning the database inside out with Event Store - Event Store Blog

Relational vs state transition databases: how they compare

State Transition: Uncovering a New Data Model

Convince your CTO to use Event Sourcing - Event Store Blog

10 problems that Event Sourcing can help solve for you

Unleashing AI/ML potential with EventStoreDB

How using events helps with a teams' autonomy

Event immutability and dealing with change

Use Cases

Exploring the 4 Major Use Cases of EventStoreDB

From data to insights: using event log data to train machine learning models

Harnessing EDA with legacy systems: Sidecar Source of Truth

A Story of Simple Solutions that Led to Complex Problems

Event Sourcing without Responsibility

Modernizing Legacy Systems with EventStoreDB - The Insureon Success Story

Navigating Complexity: The Oceanic Safety Validation Pipeline built with EventStoreDB

NHS Wales app: EventStoreDB as “the backbone of a patient-held record”

Design – Beginner

What's the difference between a command and an event?

What’s in an (event) name?

Untangle Tightly Coupled Systems with EventStoreDB (Part 1)

Untangle Tightly Coupled Systems with EventStoreDB (Part 2)

Building a scalable and reliable event-driven architecture with EventStoreDB and Kafka

A recipe for gradually migrating from CRUD to Event Sourcing

Design – Intermediate

Live projections for read models with Event Sourcing and CQRS

Keep your streams short! Temporal modeling for fast reads and optimal data retention

4 Strategies for future events with Event Sourcing

EventStorming Modelling Patterns: Going Beyond the Superficial - Event Store Blog

Snapshots in Event Sourcing

Snapshotting Strategies

Protecting Sensitive Data in Event-Sourced Systems with Crypto Shredding

How to get the current entity state from events?

Design – Advanced

Counterexamples regarding consistency in event sourced solutions (Part 1)

When to go from collaborative modelling to coding? Part 1