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Event-driven systems are famous for immutability, and #GDPR is famous for data removal. Does that mean that event-driven systems cannot be compliant with privacy rules? Can we remove data in Event Sourcing?
Data governance practices are, unfortunately, not discussed enough in event-driven systems. People treat events more like freehand drawing, sometimes as mesh, but ending too often with a mess instead.
We should carefully draw boundaries between our events. And we should also care about data privacy.
In the, I explained techniques specific to event-driven systems and tools like #Kafka, #Marten, and #EventStoreDB. But I also put them into a wider context.
After this article, I hope you see that applying privacy regulations to event-driven systems differs mainly from the technical patterns in handling them.