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The Message DB event store and message store is plain-old Postgres. Using it just means connecting via the Postgres client offered in your language of choice and executing some Postgres server functions. Having an event store in Postgres is an obvious win for teams that don’t want to run technologies intended for the most extreme degree of scale. But first you’ll need to build a basic client. »

Message DB was released last week after incubating for three years in the Eventide Project as its message store implementation. »

The release of Eventide v2 was a hurdle of breaking changes to the message store and its supporting libraries, and the extraction of Message DB. Now that we’re past the v2 hurdle, look out for exciting new features coming to the Eventide stack. »

The Eventide Project team is excited to announce Message DB: A fully-featured event store and message store implemented in PostgreSQL for pub/sub, event sourcing, and evented microservices applications. »

We’re super excited to announce that Eventide v2 has been released! Eventide has been in production for five years now, and open-sourced for four years. The v2 release marks a major leap forward for the toolkit and opens the door for exiting new features coming in the v2 generation of the stack. »

The Eventide Project has been recognized for Social Impact by the 2019 Fukuoka Ruby Awards. If there's one thing the Eventide community would want to be recognized for, it's indeed social impact. It's something that we are 100% committed to. To be recognized for it is more meaningful than we can say. »

A good sign of a technology’s vitality is the appearance of clones and ports to other platforms. It’s compelling not only to the users of its native environment, but is also attracting users from other platforms. And when those users return to their home environments, they spread the word. The Eventide Project isn’t exactly taking the tech world by storm, but it is inspiring some porting activity. And we’ve made some structural changes to the toolkit to enable this work. »

The Eventide Project has released a breaking change update to the message store library and the message store Postgres library that all users should be aware of, but that few users will be affected by. »

The v2 generation of Eventide is on the horizon. Here are the notable changes coming: »

Allowing a service to terminate is the most common course of action to take when an unexpected error is encountered. The key word here is unexpected. »