<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[There is a comparison that can be made between ActivityPub and Event-Sourcing.]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p>There is a comparison that can be made between ActivityPub and Event-Sourcing.</p><p>1/</p><p>With Event-Sourcing, your source-of-truth is an append-only series of events.</p><p>Ex: USER_REGISTERED, EMAIL_ADDRESS_VERIFIED, PASSWORD_CHANGED, etc.</p><p>In ActivityPub, this is similar to the inbox, outbox, etc being an append-only series of Activity.</p><p>Ex: Create, Like, Undo, etc.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ActivityPub" rel="tag">#<span>ActivityPub</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ActivityStreams" rel="tag">#<span>ActivityStreams</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EventSourcing" rel="tag">#<span>EventSourcing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FediDev" rel="tag">#<span>FediDev</span></a></p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/e025deec-93a0-45d1-8fc4-4ff92b9091de/there-is-a-comparison-that-can-be-made-between-activitypub-and-event-sourcing.</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 02:43:27 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/e025deec-93a0-45d1-8fc4-4ff92b9091de.rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 17:11:21 GMT</pubDate><ttl>60</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to There is a comparison that can be made between ActivityPub and Event-Sourcing. on Sun, 03 May 2026 17:34:56 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p class="quote-inline">RE: <a href="https://mastodon.social/@reiver/114002434643920102" rel="nofollow noopener"><span>https://</span><span>mastodon.social/@reiver/114002</span><span>434643920102</span></a></p><p>4/</p><p>Related (in quote-boost).</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ActivityPub" rel="tag">#<span>ActivityPub</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ActivityStreams" rel="tag">#<span>ActivityStreams</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FediDev" rel="tag">#<span>FediDev</span></a></p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/reiver/statuses/116511847008201203</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/reiver/statuses/116511847008201203</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[reiver@mastodon.social]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 17:34:56 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to There is a comparison that can be made between ActivityPub and Event-Sourcing. on Sun, 03 May 2026 17:20:32 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p>There is a comparison that can be made between ActivityPub and Event-Sourcing.</p><p>3/</p><p>With ActivityPub, Activities are often applied to an object. That object gets assigned an ID in the form of a URL.</p><p>(And, by URL I mean URL, URI, IRI, etc.)</p><p>One doesn't have to read through all the Activities in an inbox, outbox, etc to get the final state of an object.</p><p>One can just get the JSON-LD document from the object's ID URL to get the final state.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ActivityPub" rel="tag">#<span>ActivityPub</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ActivityStreams" rel="tag">#<span>ActivityStreams</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EventSourcing" rel="tag">#<span>EventSourcing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FediDev" rel="tag">#<span>FediDev</span></a></p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/reiver/statuses/116511790369531031</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/reiver/statuses/116511790369531031</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[reiver@mastodon.social]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 17:20:32 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to There is a comparison that can be made between ActivityPub and Event-Sourcing. on Sun, 03 May 2026 17:17:48 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p>There is a comparison that can be made between ActivityPub and Event-Sourcing.</p><p>2/</p><p>With Event-Sourcing, you can "project" the events to get another (often more peformant) view of the data in the events.</p><p>Without having to incur the cost of having to read all the events to figure out the final state.</p><p>...</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ActivityPub" rel="tag">#<span>ActivityPub</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ActivityStreams" rel="tag">#<span>ActivityStreams</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EventSourcing" rel="tag">#<span>EventSourcing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FediDev" rel="tag">#<span>FediDev</span></a></p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/reiver/statuses/116511779586068528</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/reiver/statuses/116511779586068528</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[reiver@mastodon.social]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 17:17:48 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>