# Event Sourcing made Simple – Kickstarter Engineering

<https://kickstarter.engineering/event-sourcing-made-simple-4a2625113224>

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- Saved: April 28, 2018 (2018-04-28T10:25:18Z)
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## What Jamie wrote

This is one of the most approachable descriptions of Event Sourcing and the key concepts behind it I have ever read. The animated diagrams help as well. Kickstarter’s specific implementation is very Rails and ActiveRecord heavy, but shows a lightweight application of the concepts.

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT52: Weekly Thing #52 / May 5, 2018](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/52/), Links 📌

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