Rebecca and Event Sourcing

The Previous State Is Always Haunting the Current System

Daphne du Maurier · 11 June 2026

“Last night I dreamt I went to the audit log again.”

A haunting meditation on event sourcing, immutable history, and the unsettling discovery that previous application states continue exerting influence long after everyone wishes they had disappeared.

Contents

1. Chapter 1: The Immutable Event Store
2. Chapter 2: Rebecca Commits to Main
3. Chapter 3: Replaying Historical Catastrophes
4. Chapter 4: Manderley and the Append-Only Architecture

Published by Austenpunk, the distinguished imprint for engineers who believe that every production incident would be improved by a stronger sense of narrative irony.

This essential volume combines literary feeling, technical anxiety, and just enough documentation to suggest that somebody once understood the system.