• sandreas 9 hours ago

    How does event sourcing handle the requirement for data no longer be in the database at all, e.g. if a user asks deleting all his data that ever existed?

    • gartheuncle 7 hours ago

      One of the best and safest methods in an immutable event store is to store sensitive data as a reference. Some purpose-built event stores offer such capabilities by design.

      • goloroden 6 hours ago

        There are a number of strategies, some described here: https://docs.eventsourcingdb.io/best-practices/gdpr-complian...

      • direwolf20 18 hours ago

        Was this mostly AI written?

        • goloroden 18 hours ago

          No. Was your comment AI-written?

          (I'm asking because it's super annoying that some pseudo-smart people come up with an oh-so-clever approach of "look ma, I have detected AI slop" over and over again, when all they actually do is piss people off who write by hand.)