Event sourcing in smart industry

What happened back then? How often haven’t you asked this question after discovering a problem that was caused by something that happened way back in the past? To get an answer, it would help a lot to have data available from the time the problem occurred. However, as I explained in an earlier article, it’s not easy to collect the right data without drowning in a sea of seemingly unrelated data.

In that article, I examined the issue from two sides. I looked at the available technology to collect data and the fact that this collection should be done ‘wisely.’ I didn’t go into the possible ways to do the latter and avoid getting too much or the wrong data. Here, I’m going to fill in that gap by putting something in between the functional need to gather data and the technologies to do the collecting – some software engineering practices.