Daniel Coulbourne - Put Verbs in your database - Laracon AU 2023

Join software developer, Daniel Colburne, as he shares his journey of building a Laravel based web game during COVID and discover his approach to a new approach to event sourcing by putting verbs in your database. Unfortunately, the live demo gods were against Daniel, but he has a recording of the live code portion of this talk, which you can check out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy-furf9DHk 00:00 Introduction 00:41 Introducing Daniel 01:08 Building The Web Game 02:04 Talking Businessly Podcast 02:35 No Plans To Merge Podcast 02:58 Demoing Verbs Package 03:10 Harry's Request #1 03:56 Harry's Request #2 04:45 Migrating Data 05:15 Break Time 05:38 Harry's Request #3 06:27 Creating Interviews 07:11 Harry's Request #4 07:45 The Problem With Nouns 08:15 Understanding Verbs 08:56 Event Sourcing Benefits 09:52 Showing Event Data 10:46 Query Simplicity 11:28 Time Travel 11:57 Modular Architecture 13:00 Live Coding The Solution 14:30 Implementing Submit Logic 15:46 Implementing Approve Logic 17:10 Implementing Reject Logic 17:59 Transition To Timestamps 19:31 Implementing Timestamps 20:23 Adding State Machine Logic 21:32 Implementing The State Object 23:55 Debugging State Logic 25:30 Deleting Bad Tests 26:18 Scheduling Interviews 29:44 Preventing Duplicate Events 30:39 Additional Pro Tips 31:21 Conclusion