To give the benefit of the doubt, maybe it was an intriguing title?

I didn't personally think that the style of the writing or the content itself was particularly good, but event sourcing has an almost narcotic appeal.

ES (nosql did too) has this wild ability to slip past scepticism. It feels right, I think because it milks some dopamine by feeling both simpler in a rewarding abstract sense and sufficiently (for Devs) complex in a day to day operations sense.

Someone got around the upvote ring detection? I know there are lots of folks that claim to know how to get around it, but agreed it seems sketchy

And at 1 hour it's still at the top in spite of all the negative comments. I'm assuming it got flagged by enough of us and yet it prevails. Odd.

I've got nothing smart to say about databases on a Saturday

Funny, I had the same thought