I’m looking for best practice here: not just possibilities.
Currently, with ESv1 - we have code that writes our projected Read Models to storage (local disk, Azure blob storage, S3, etc…). Now with ESv3 - we have projections running, that can supply that same read model.
To Date, we’re considering using projections for calculated values - counters, balances, etc. That seems like a perfect fit. But I’m tempted, to start pulling more and more read models out of disk storage, and read them from a projection.
What’s the good/bad/ugly with this? Where is that line? What rules are others following?
No helpful insight, but I too would like to know what the “Do’s and Don’ts” are for projections…
I’m currently using NServiceBus/Azure Service Bus, EventStore and SQL…
I would love to collapse my footprint to NServiceBus + EventStore w/Projections, but until I hear more on projections and take ES through more than my Proof Of Concept site, I’m in the same boat as you.
They’re mostly OK to use for things like counters etc, but be aware that projections are an unsupported beta feature which have issues with clustered operation right now - we’ll be working to fix them soon.
Obviously there’s no support for e.g. range queries so they’re not useful for replacing a large number of read models.
This wouldnt surprise me they are not intended to have giant arrays of
state... there is a hard limit of 4mb IIRC but this will give quite
interesting performance