zeebe VS eventsourcing

You can Ctrl + F (or Command + F) your way through the file, but you have to know what you are looking for.

Zeebe

For this purpose, it's the equivalent of using a sledge hammer to crack a walnut, but I think something like Zeebe could facilitate that

I’m doing a lot of exploratory work with BPMN right now.

I think if your business is largely transactional (think Stripe), there is a lot of value to be had by framing your development as “business process automation”.

The term (and BPMN) has a lot of enterprise baggage, but some of the tools out there [0][1] are well suited to orchestrating services (and people where necessary) as a single automated process. The the ability to build that flow visually using BPMN, and then execute it in a workflow engine where you can monitor it, audit it, and optimize over time is pretty compelling.

Here’s an interesting read on the topic: https://www.infoq.com/articles/events-workflow-automation/

[0] https://github.com/camunda-cloud/zeebe

[1] https://github.com/flowable/flowable-engine

(I have no idea whether ES is used in temporal though… never looked at the code)

[1] https://github.com/camunda-cloud/zeebe

[2] https://temporal.io/

There is no built-in storage backend but in just a few lines you can make an actor (or use the monitor method to consume everything) that will store everything wherever you want, with eventsourcing or plain events.

Similar thing happened on a project I joined. Except this person not only forced ES onto the business but their own specific library for it https://github.com/johnbywater/eventsourcing

The business eventually failed to due to this, due to slow implementation of simple features and many other issues with it.

I will never use ES due to this project, it's pointless, anything you can do with it, you can do without it.